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TIL: As recently as the 1950’s around 50% of Americans age 65 and older lived in multigenerational households.

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x6erw TIL a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift, but ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
OoDna TIL of professional "fired men" that were used as department store scapegoats who were fired several times a day to please costumers who were disgruntled about some error
1bn4 TIL The French tried to counter attack Germany in 1939, but were repulsed by “The silent soldier”…“a definitive weapon of the war”. New German mines that would fire themselves out of the ground before going off, wounding not just the soldier, but everybody else around them, as well.
rN4j4 TIL the 2013 El Reno tornado was more than 2.5 miles wide and had multiple vortices in it’s interior moving at speeds of 177 mph across the ground. It is the first known tornado to cause the death of storm chasers, tossing their car 600 feet through the air.
6Egk8 Nokia and Vodaphone say they plan to put a high-speed cellular network on the moon.