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TIL One out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.

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OleL TIL environmental activist group Greenpeace once accidentally released a fact sheet which said “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]”.
YdyA TIL Horace Wells, man who pioneered the use of laughing gas in dentistry, became so deranged after experimenting with chloroform that he poured sulfuric acid on 2 prostitutes. He committed suicide shortly after realizing what he had done.
6BoY TIL that Bill Gates wife and children are not allowed to own or use an Apple product. A restriction was also put in place by Steve Balmer for his family.
pLZb TIL in 2010 an MI6 spy was found dead, his naked body inside a padlocked bag in his flat in London. The Metropolitan Police concluded that he had accidentally locked himself in the bag and died as a result.
wod17 TIL that the Toba Supervolcano which almost wiped out humanity 77,000 years ago has a magma chamber containing over 50,000 cubic kilometres of eruptible magma, more than four times the volume of Lake Superior.