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TIL approximately 4% of the US population is arrested every year.

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LVam TIL 1 in 10000 chickens develops as female on one side and male on the other.
e4m6 TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
yVBde TIL that the children’s choir in “Another Brick in the Wall” was paid with a concert ticket, an album, and a single; their school received £1,000. Only 25 years later, after the copyright law changed and the choir members were tracked down, did they receive royalties.
5VK08 TIL: You CAN get pregnant twice. Superfetation is an extremely rare event that involves getting pregnant while you’re already pregnant.
yKrw TIL that Singapore has the highest ratio of millionaires in the world. 1/6 residents has 1 million USD in disposable wealth.