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TIL that in the year 2000, median sale price of homes in the US was around $170k and median income was $66k. Now in Q4 2022 median sale price is $470k and median income is $71k.

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e095g TIL of Chinese assassin, Shi Jianqiao. In the Warlord Era (1916-1928) when Shi was 19, her warlord father was defeated & executed by a rival, Sun Chuanfang. Shi spent her 20s tracking Sun down, killing him in 1935. Chinese society was so moved by her act of filial revenge that the court pardoned her
p8jlQ TIL only about 4 percent of people have "outie" bellybuttons as adults. Surgeons now offer umbilicoplasty procedures to change the bellybutton's appearance and to turn outies into innies.
VMElm TIL in 1922, scientists went to a hospital ward with comatose children, dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. They went from bed to bed injecting the kids with a new extract, insulin. As they injected the last comatose child, the first one injected began to awaken.
4X15o TIL that the Nazis massacred an entire village in France (Oradour-sur-Glane), killing 642 people, including 247 children. Unlike other Nazi village massacre sites, which were razed or rebuilt and marked by monuments or fields of roses, the charred remains of the village have been left untouched.