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TIL When a billionaire resident dies, states reap an average $165 million windfall from estate taxes

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p8bMG TIL "The Hole in the wall" project put computers inside walls in poor villages/slums in India with no English teachers/guide. In a few months, the 6 to 13 year old children taught themselves English using the computer and told the researchers they needed a faster processor and better mouse.
M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.
nW40G TIL: Button-Down and Button-Up dress shirts are 2 different things, and the terminology is referring to whether the collar is buttoned down to the shirt (or not)
v11pj TIL Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC not to avoid the word "fried", but to avoid the word "Kentucky". All because the state of Kentucky had started charging companies to use it's name.
6EKn7 TIL: Ingesting around 600 freshly ground cherry pits would provide enough cyanide to kill a 150 lb person