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TIL most of "The Strip" isn't actually in Las Vegas. It's in Paradise, Nevada

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e0ARL TIL only 16% of millionaires inherited their fortune. 47% made it through business, and 23% got it through paid work.
JXOB TIL Jack Abernathy was known as “Catch-‘em-alive Jack” because he would catch wolves by jumping off a horse, shoving his hand in the wolf’s mouth so it was unable to bite down, and holding it down until it became docile. He performed this trick for Teddy Roosevelt during a hunt in Oklahoma in 1905.
awwn0 TIL that the sting of the tarantula hawk wasp is so painful the medical advice is to lie down and scream
E1W8x TIL Memorial Day was started by former slaves as Decoration Day during the Civil War to celebrate emancipation and those who fought for justice. During the Jim Crow era, the holiday was whitewashed into the apolitical Memorial Day to erase the "divisive" issues of slavery and Black citizenship
wLR18 TIL that there are no horror movies in China. They don't have a rating system so "you must make movies that a five year old can watch without feeling scared."