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TIL Of the estimated 60,000 people left stranded by Hurricane Katrina, over 33,500 were saved by the Coast Guard

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e0Q7k TIL that oil magnate J. Paul Getty, one of the richest humans in history, was so miserly that he laundered his own shirts by hand, reused envelopes and paper, made all the phones in his home coin-operated, and stood in line for hours for show tickets to save 50 cents
QNDwd TIL in 1981 a dog won against two humans for honorary mayor of a California town. In response, Chinese newspaper "People's Daily" reported this as an example of the failings of Western democracy
jkdn TIL Blind people don’t see black, they literally see nothing
nPY7 TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.
Me5mW TIL wartime psychoanalysts correctly predicted of Hitler that: As the war turns against him, his emotions will intensify and will have outbursts more frequently. His public appearances will become much rarer, because he's unable to face a critical audience