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TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.

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gkM8 TIL Lord Timothy Dexter, late 1700s American businessman, faked his own death, but after attending his own funeral and not seeing his wife cry, revealed himself and caned her for not grieving hard enough
61WX TIL a young boy once pocketed a few giant African Land Snails while on vacation in Hawaii. When he returned home to Florida and got bored of it, his grandmother released them in the backyard, starting an invasion of foot long snails in Florida.
0wdnR TIL that the first sports bra was two jock straps stitched together.
GYN0G TIL Rats have empathy. When offered the choice of a tempting chocolate treat, or rescuing a drowning rat, they chose to rescue the drowning rat.
vPwB TIL Miyamoto Musashi single handedly defeated an entire school, killed the last heir, and invented dual wielding katana fighting at the same time.