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awQ6M TIL a computer program named “World One,” which was developed in 1973 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicts 2020 to be the year when a series of catastrophic events kick off a 20-year process of a slow demise of human civilization.
nedVB TIL the wealth gap in America is almost unimaginable even when looking at it visually. 1,000 seconds is almost 17 minutes. 1 million seconds is about 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years. This is what having $163.3B looks like.
0w7XM TIL that the Japanese and the Chinese use the same symbol for their currencies called the Yen(¥)
5bmr TIL that Dalmatians are traditional fire house mascots because they get along with horses.
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