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TIL if you have no debts and $10 in your pocket, you have more wealth than 25% of Americans

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M7Plm TIL about Senet, an ancient Egyptian board game over 4,500 years old—among the oldest known. Played for over 2,000 years, it symbolized the soul's journey through the afterlife. Though its original rules are lost, historians have reconstructed the game using surviving evidence.
xv4w TIL that certain medals at the 2014 winter Olympics will contain fragments of the meteorite which hit Russia.
VQmD TIL that pants were likely invented to make horseback riding more comfortable.
NnvJ TIL during the Islamic Golden Age scientists were paid the equivalent of what pro athletes are paid today.
GDJ4 TIL a man died in a helmet law protest while not wearing a helmet when he crashed his motorcycle. Medical experts say he would have survived if he had a helmet on during the accident.