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TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.

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QN0lp TIL that the drug cocktail used for medically assisted death varies widely and has varying degrees of success in providing comfort- in one instance it took 108 hours to work.
XGQk TIL that a kilometer high skyscraper is under construction right now in Saudi Arabia
mx61x TIL Duct Tape is air resistant since it was made to tape air ducts as the name implies
W74Eo TIL 36 seconds after takeoff, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning and the computers, particularly those dealing with telemetry, immediately became garbled. The mission was almost aborted before engineer John Aaron recommended an obscure switch which reset data, saving the mission
eVNb TIL ‘McRib’ contains over 70 ingredients including a bleaching agent often used in foamed plastics. McRib’s “restructured meat technology” uses proteins extracted from a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach to bind pork trimmings into a rib-like food item.