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

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ANRwo TIL: A declassified CIA project 'OXYGAS' had trained dolphins to place explosives on enemy ships
9YLx6 TIL a female Goliath birdeater has a lifespan of 15-25 years
VBrR4 TIL that after playing 9 years in Major League Baseball, Byron McLaughlin allegedly worked in the counterfeit consumer goods industry in Mexico, making knock-off athletic footwear. He fled justice after posting bail in 1990 and his exact whereabouts are unknown. It is thought he is in Europe.
MeWG0 TIL That the Scaly Foot Gastropod lives in hydrothermal vents up to 750°F, doesn't eat food, and is the only living creature that encorporates iron into its skeleton.
R7KR9 TIL the term "in a New York minute" was first recorded in the mid-twentieth century in Piney Woods, Texas.