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TIL The voting rate in the US for people earning under $50,000 is HALF the voting rate of those making over $100,000.

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W7yk4 TIL the "snake oil salesman" is attributed to Clark Stanley who gained national attention marketing snake oil at the 1893 World's Fair. In 1916 a USDA analysis concluded there was no snake oil in his concoction at all, and that it was 99% mineral oil. He was fined $20 ($543.69 in 2022).
Lk1lQ TIL James Earl Ray, the man who killed Martin Luther King, escaped from prision in 1967 and went to Mexico, where he attempted to establish himself as a pornographic film director.(paragraph 6)
oBRBA TIL Pole Vault Poles are hollow.
j6Z1X TIL Bill Gates hired Jay Leno to demo Windows 95 at its official launch event. The footage was only rediscovered from a VHS copy in 2022
oolY TIL An American magician in the 1900’s acted as a Chinese man for his show and never broke character in public, even using a translator when speaking to journalists. he died on stage after a trick went wrong, his last words were “Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain.”