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TIL A foreigner can invest $500,000 in a U.S. business to receive a green card.

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W7EQd TIL that the expression "i have a bridge to sell you" is a reference to George Parker who conned people into buying the Brooklyn bridge
rNJxM TIL that inventor of an early version of the lie detector machine, William Marston, is also the creator of the comic book character Wonder Woman. He gave her a lie detector of her own in the form of the magical Lasso of Truth.
mxXYM TIL that although they live in a climate inhospitable to crop development, the Inuit do not suffer from vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) due to their diet of frozen and raw fish and mammal organs. By not cooking the food, the vitamin C is not broken down and can be absorbed by the human body.
OoVl4 TIL that while André 3000 from OutKast was a vegan for fifteen years, he recently gave it up, saying "Socially it became horrible. I was kind of just sitting at home eating a salad."
Y7JE7 TIL that during the famous 1959 Kitchen Debate, Khrushchev claimed that Nixon's grandchildren would live under communism. But Khrushchev would later be disproven as it was his son instead that became a naturalized American citizen.