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TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.

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7rB7L TIL only 5 to 12 percent of the people alive today have been on a plane. The majority of air travel is undertaken by a mere 2 percent of the world’s population.
r8jy TIL the computer virus that infected Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2010 was set to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” at full volume at midnight.
AD7w4 TIL that only one girls’ name in America has never gone out of the top 100 most popular: Elizabeth. According to the SSA, the name ranked a high of #3 in 1887, a low of #26 in 1945, and was #13 in 2018.
kZk4 TIL that 3 masked burglars unknowingly broke into Dolph Lundgren’s home and tied up and threatened his wife. They fled when they found a family photo and realised who owned the house.
Wny9 TIL the crack in the Liberty Bell is from a repair job. In 1846, metal workers widened the thin crack to prevent it from spreading further and to restore the tone of the bell by using a technique called “stop drilling”. But the repair job produced a second crack that silenced the bell forever.