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TIL in 1913 John Rockefeller owned 2% of the US GDP, an amount that today would be worth over $409 billion and make him 3 times richer than Jeff Bezos

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YXbZ TIL That dogs hesitate going out into the rain not because they don’t like getting wet, but because the rain amplifies sound and hurts their sensitive ears.
N7Vo6 TIL Divorce in Ireland was only legalised in 1995 after a referendum. The margin of victory was 0.56%
4an6 TIL that the term “Big Bang theory” was first coined by astronomer Fred Hoyle on a BBC radio programme in March 1949. Hoyle was a prominent critic of the theory.
7rQJb TIL about the Holomodor, a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine that killed up to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.
Z85eD TIL of Knut Haugland, WW2 Norwegian resistance fighter who took part in Operation Gunnerside which the film The Heroes of Telemark was based on. Haugland was later captured by the nazis and escaped, twice and would later be part of the Kon Tiki crew alongside Thor Heyerdal. A total badass.