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TIL: Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies

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4kVZw TIL the theory that Slavs exterminated the Greeks from Greece, meaning modern Greeks are entirely unrelated to Ancient Greeks, is not supported by recent DNA analysis.
PMWO TIL that in the 1970s, General Mills sued an economics professor for making a parody game called “Anti-Monopoly,” but the suit was thrown out because it was discovered that Monopoly was a ripoff of a board game first developed in 1903 called “The Landlord’s Game.”
OopVg TIl the US strategic petroleum reserves are stored in underground caverns carved out of salt. Salt does not react with the oil and is self-healing. The plastic behavior of salt will cause it to naturally close fractures or gaps and prevent any leakage.
8aGvZ Rather than inciting people to anger or violence, research has found that loud and chaotic music such as metal and punk is ‘a healthy way of processing anger’
Y7MJv Today I learned that there was Duke of Wellington, as well as a Duke Ellington. lol.