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TIL that the cost to raise a child in the US has risen by 111% since 1999 but median income has gone down by 9%

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nWr1P TIL David Bowie had the first version of My Way, later sung by Frank Sinatra.
mxZRO TIL Rats in a cage with drugs don't use drugs if they're given enough to do.
Z8544 TIL the inventor of the Saxophone, Adolphe Sax survived multiple near death experiences as a child such as; falling from a height of 3 stories and hitting his head on a stone, drinking a bowl of vitriolized water age 3 and surviving a gunpowder explosion that left him seriously burnt, among others