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TIL America has the second highest disposable household income in the world

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yQ9vl TIL that a Rolls Royce oil change is $650 and the annual check up is almost $4,000...
pkXe TIL China considers pornography to be “spiritual pollution” and has banned it since 1949. Usually the punishment is just a fine and a warning, but in 2005 the creator of China’s biggest porn site was sentenced to life in prison.
b64M9 TIL boiling water can remove microplastics
wZbW TIL Charles Schwab met a bunch of black American soldiers on a boat’s commissary in 1919, and as an experiment offered to lend them each a dollar. He gave them all his address, if they wanted to pay him back. 138 of 154 men did, almost 90%.
NXZv6 TIL that romance novels are the most popular literature genre. By 1991 46% of all US mass-market paperbacks were romance. Half of romance publisher Harlequin's customers purchased 30 novels a month. 25% of all Americans read a romance novel in 2008.