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TIL that if you make more than $32,400, you are the 1% globally.

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yQPla TIL the University of Iowa, at the end of the first quarter of every home football game, turns and acknowledges the critically ill children watching the game from the hospital suites overlooking the stadium across the street.
VMNPD TIL the primary function of a bathroom vent fan is not for removing odors but to exhaust warm, moist air created from using the shower or bathtub which discourages mold growth.
WkoE9 TIL At a prison facility in Nuuk, Greenland some inmates reportedly hold the keys to their own cells (to afford them privacy), and others may leave the premises during the day to go to work or school. Perhaps surprisingly, inmates are even allowed to go hunting with rifles to shoot birds and seals.
MgV0 TIL that Rosemary Kennedy, JFK’s sister, was given a lobotomy at age 23. The family feared she would disgrace their reputation.
VBpb8 TIL the first African-American automotive company was owned by Frederick Douglass Patterson, who was also the first Black football player at Ohio State University. Frederick was the son of a carriage maker and blacksmith. He transformed his fathers carriage making company into a automotive company.