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TIL Americans think they'll need $1.46MM to retire, up 53% from $951K in 2020.

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6EKA7 TIL Regis Philbin broadcasted from Prince Edward Island in July 2010 but disliked local mussels and oysters because they were salty and squirmy. P.E.I.'s tourism office hoped "Live! With Regis & Kelly" would bring attention and tourism to the island, at a cost of $1 million to taxpayers
VBMGk TIL that Greenland sharks may live for over 500 years, making them longest-living vertebrate. They grow so slowly, that they reach their sexual maturity approximately at age of 150.
1av08 TIL legend has it that when Julius Caesar was born, they had to cut open his mother’s womb to deliver him. That’s why the modern surgery is called a Caesarian section.
6yjm TIL: In the 1500’s, the Iroquois tribes designed quite an elaborate political system. This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. Such a complex political arrangement was unknown in Europe at that time.
yVnl TIL that in Islamic Law, A literate Prisoner of War can secure his/her freedom by teaching ten Muslims to read and write.