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TIL if you make at least $34,000 a year you are among the richest 1% of the world

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GAGWG TIL that the Chinese economic reform was traced to an agreement of farmers in a small village in Eastern China
W7G0L TIL that the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (better known as "Ode to Joy") has lyrics, based a poem by Friedrich Schiller, also titled "Ode to Joy" ("An de Freude").
LkL7Q TIL Mötley Crüe Front man, Vince Neil killed friend and fellow musician Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and caused brain injury to two other people while driving drunk in 1985. Because, in Neil's own words, "that's the power of cash".
NXgZP Today I learned that there is a kind of mineral called "Cummingtonite" .
m1dvo TIL when breastfeeding, the mammary glands will detect pathogens in the baby's saliva and create the needed antibodies for it in the milk.