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TIL 70% of millionaires do not consider themselves “wealthy”

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9wlGG TIL The Shroud off Turin was carbon dated to be from around ~1300 AD
E1NZ7 TIL The communal chatter of snapping shrimp colonies on the ocean floor created enough white noise that the U.S. Navy successfully hid submarines near them during WWII, avoiding detection by underwater Japanese hydrophones.
kvRW TIL That the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t lawfully exist. Congress never created it. The Dept. of Treasury created it via a Treasury Order, which was cancelled in 2005.
WgNL TIL that PT Barnum, frustrated with how long people lingered in his museum’s exhibits, posted large signs throughout that said “This Way to the Egress”. He knew most of the visitors would follow them, not knowing that “Egress” meant “exit”. They couldn’t re-enter without paying the entry fee again.
awQEJ TIL In 2018 the WHO classified ageing as a disease