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TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.

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Od61 TIL that in 1971 there was a failed attempt to adapt Dune to film. It would have included Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger acting with music by Pink Floyd. Its failure caused the SFX head to go into a psychiatric hospital where he later wrote the script for “Alien”.
oBA1R TIL that more than two decades before his house arrest for his sympathetic treatment of the Tiananmen Square protestors, former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was removed from his official positions and paraded through Guangzhou in a dunce cap.
v0Z4 TIL Plasma is actually the most common phase of matter in the universe. Despite being rare on Earth… the Sun, the stars, and most interstellar matter is plasma.
jN0OR TIL that in parts of India, when a Tiger kills someone in the forest a red cloth is tied to a tree to mark the spot where they are killed and to show where a tiger has been hunting.
gjgD TIL Eye-wear is getting too costly because a single company Luxottica controls 80% of the major brands in the $28 billion global eyeglasses industry.