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TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.

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VkRZ TIL Poor women who drank tea were viewed as irresponsible as whisky drinkers in early 19th-century Ireland
ZpYM4 TIL People brought their kids to watch Alien in the theaters (many apparently thinking it was going to be something more akin to Star Wars)
N7ma1 TIL New toilets on the Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers clog so frequently that the ships’ sewage systems must be cleaned periodically with specialized acids costing about $400,000 a flush!
R7Jg9 TIL that in 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji (????) the Word of the Year.
l7ew5 TIL "hear, hear" is an abridgement of "Hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!"