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TIL that the homeownership rate is the proportion of households occupied by the owner divided by the total number of occupied households, so it does not actually reflect the % of human beings that rent - say you have 5 room mates. You only count as 1 "renter", the way the data usually presented

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RWY1 TIL that Alfred Nobel, who stabilized Nitroglycerin, was told by his Doctor to eat NG to treat his heart complications. He refused. Decades later, NG proved to be effective in reducing the blockages that lead to a heart attack. The scientist that discovered this was awarded the Nobel Prize.
woVj7 TIL that the female G-spot is named after Ernst Gräfenberg, a progressive Jewish medical doctor who studied female sexual physiology (including female ejaculation) well ahead of his time.
5VM59 TIL Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI got married by Proxy. Marie's own brother stood in for the groom during the ceremony, and she only met her husband for the first time a month after their marriage
OooxX TIL of the Norwegian immigrant and WWII vet Andrew Haines who requested and was granted a Viking funeral by the U.S. Coast Guard.
9wlED TIL: In the Palace of Westminster, the UK's parliamentary building, there are nearly 30 different bars. In the 1980s, an estimated 10 per cent of MPs were alcoholics.