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TIL in 1873 a classic adventure novel “Around the World in 80 Days” was published in France. Six years later an American woman journalist by the pen name of Nellie Bly completed the trip with the described itinerary in 72 days with nothing more than a handbag and travel money tied around her neck.

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W0QL TIL that if you earn more than $25,000 annually, you’re in the top 10% of the world’s income earners. If you earn more than $50,000 a year, you’re in the top 1% of the world’s income earners.
16vY4 TIL that Uruguay has the highest cattle per capita in the world, with more than three cows for every person in the country.
16RyV TIL about Irving Thalberg, known as the Boy Wonder his films were the first to carve out an international market and set the path for making Hollywood the center of the largest movie industry in the world. He achieved all this before his death at 37.
XEdrR TIL the blue planet used to be purple. 250 million years ago, the oceans lost all their oxygen and one of the only things to survive was a purple alga/bacteria which would have given the seas an irridescent violet hue. Geologists have found remnants of this purple bacteria embedded in ancient rock.
mxvlp TIL the Hoover Dam was made with enough concrete to build a highway from New York to California