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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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M7b7 TIL on October 12, 1960, during a live, televised debate, a Japanese politician was stabbed to death by a 17yo right-wing assassin. The entire incident was broadcast nation wide.
MAVK TIL that Texas banned prisoners’ choice of last meal after Lawrence Russell Brewer requested 2 chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, 1 lbs of BBQ, 3 fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream & a slab of peanut butter fudge w/ crushed peanuts and ATE NONE of it
KboB TIL a 2009 study found that 60% of bankruptcies in the US are from medical bills. Of that 60%, 78% had medical insurance.
86ra TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.
JeQV TIL in 1950, a disease called Myxomatosis was introduced to rabbits for population control in Australia. It wiped out 500,000,000 rabbits, giving them skin tumors and causing blindness, often killing them within 2 weeks.