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TIL 70% of Rich Families Lose Their Wealth by the Second Generation. 90% by the Third.

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Oopo4 TIL Thomas Jefferson made his own version of the Bible stripping Jesus of his divinity, miracles, and the resurrection and until the 1950s each newly elected US Senator received a copy.
dko7 TIL Portugal decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and the number of addicts has been halved since then, and there were no negative effects on the country.
alx9 TIL; there have been at least 9 confirmed political assassinations in the United States since 2000
gMgW9 TIL that the US once spent $1.3 million dollars to see if beer koozies really worked
e0G4J TIL That in the 1970's, an unidentified serial killer known as the doodler would Sketch a drawing of his victims before killing them.