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TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.

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b75a TIL that part of the reason that the cereal Oreo O’s was discontinued was due to the fact that it was the leading cause of child obesity in Spain
P1p5O TIL: Telecommunication companies participate in each countries' "spectrum auction" in which they bid on the right to use specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum for a time period. In the US, the FCC has raised over $60 billion from the bids so far.
ORdR TIL that many restaurant food poisonings occur due to uncleaned ice machines, not actual food
JYlLj TIL: Joshua Bell a famous violinist, in a social experiment, played violin outside a metro station in DC, 1097 passed, only a few of them stopped a little bit. After 45 min, and 6 pieces played, he collected $32. Three days prior to that, he sold out a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.
XEbaP TIL Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe, was a Japanese-American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant. He survived a botched assassination, where he was shot three times in the head.