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TIL: 1 in 20 Americans is a Millionaire

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lo0LN TIL the longest game of monopoly was played at a frat in Pittsburgh,lasting five days in 1961. When the bank ran out of money they wired Parker Brothers, who sent them a million $ of monopoly money by air and was delivered by armoured car.
OGBZ7 TIL On July 26, 1931, a swarm of grasshoppers descended on Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota devastating millions of acres of crops. It was so thick that it blocked out the sun and one could shovel the grasshoppers with a scoop. Cornstalks were eaten to the ground and fields left completely bare.
4X6Jb TIL that the iconic 'Bass' line from "Seven Nation Army" isn't played on a bass guitar, but instead on a semi-acoustic guitar electronically lowered an octive.
VBkp0 TIL Pinky and the Brain was inspired by the peculiar personalities of two WB producers, Eddie Fitzgerald and Tom Minton with interesting mannerisms that were incorporated into the characters
0AnM TIL that theoretically if astronauts traveled in a spaceship at a constant 1g of acceleration they could travel the entire universe in their own lifetime, while billions of years would pass by on earth.