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

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l7PwN TIL that Stan Lee, inventor of Marvel Comics, and Theodore Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss, served together in the Army Training Film Division during WW2.
l78Gr TIL The crew of an Egyptian ferry extinguised a fire in the engine room by sinking the ship. Around 800 people died.
4BlJ TIL that when George Washington died, Napoleon ordered 10 days of mourning in France
D5Jv TIL it is possible to travel from Portugal to Vietnam solely by train: at 17,000 kilometres, this is the longest train journey in the world
D7vp TIL A million-dollar wound or Blighty wound is military slang referring to a type of wound received in combat which is serious enough to get the person sent away from the fighting, but is not fatal, nor will it leave the person permanently crippled.