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TIL The U.S. home ownership rate is at a 48-year low.

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1aDyd TIL Emotional support insects are a thing and got banned by American Airlines
rNEBw TIL about Italo Balbo, a high ranking Italian fascist who despised Germans and strongly criticized racial laws, a strong opponent of Italy's decision to join the conflict on Germany's side, his plane was shot down by friendly fire over Libya in 1940, two weeks after Italy joined the war.
YW6G TIL Bubble wrap was originally designed to be a three-dimensional wall paper.
p8K0G TIL about Sound of Colleagues, a white noise machine that emulates the sound of an office. A creative collaboration that was created as a reaction to this spring's strict work from home policies in Sweden.
WkwR8 TIL "Anamnesis" is the idea that humans possess innate knowledge and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. The process of incarnation is described in Neoplatonism as a trauma that causes the soul to forget its experiences (and often its divine origins as well).