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TIL that the average number of credit cards per U.S. cardholder is 9.5

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QJBEa TIL that Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer conducted a survey at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago regarding ELP's album Love Beach, and while most people disliked the name of the album, Atlantic Records refused to change it.
Rdb8 TIL: In January 2012, 150 employees of Foxconn, Taiwanese technology company and contract manufacturer for products including the iPhone, iPad and Playstation 4, threatened to commit mass suicide in protest of their working conditions
ADVRo TIL bananas would not be nearly as available to most of the world if banana-pickers were paid a livable wage.
woYdY TIL The writer for "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was investigated by the FBI after they revealed that his story's plan of robbing the Federal Reserve through a breached subway wall would have worked
eoPJ TIL that the coefficient of friction of a banana on hardwood flooring is 0.083, while ice has a coefficient of friction of 0.05, making a banana almost as slippery as ice.