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TIL Swiss researchers found that out of 37 million companies, 147 firms control 40% of global wealth and 737 control 80%.

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rRDvM TIL about a Confederate cemetery in Oxford Mississippi. Currently there is only one large marker for the cemetery, there use to be individual headstones for each plot but years ago the groundskeeper moved them to cut the lawn and forgot where they belonged.
9Llm TIL The US has 88.8 guns per 100 persons
nWXeB TIL about Sikkim, a Himalayan Kingdom that was independent for +300 years as recently as 1975, when the Chogyal, a Buddhist absolute monarch (except 1973-75) of Tibetan origin was desposed of in a referendum by his (mostly Hindu) subjects where the overwhelming majority (97%) voted to join India.
oRZ5R TIL community or homeowner associations govern some 74 million people nationwide in America
e0XN4 TIL that a president of France actually died in office while being fellated.