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TIL The Typical U.S. Home Changes Hands Every 13.2 Years

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6Em9Q TIL: Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have passages condemning charging interest on a loan. Catholic Church in medieval Europe regarded the charging of interest at any rate as sinful.
ooMR TIL in 2012 Miss America claimed to make $45 million of scholarship money available to women annually, where in reality, in 2012, the Miss America Foundation gave out less than $500,000 in cash scholarships
oRYEE TIL that in ancient Rome, blacks were not discriminated against because of their skin color or physical features. They were not barred from any profession, and there was no stigma against interracial relationships. Classical writers did not attribute social status or degree of humanity to skin color
KOMQw TIL roughly 20% of suspected pedophiles in the UK are female.
R5Vjj TIL of Tuxedo Stan, a cat that ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was eventually unable to run because of a lack of a birth certificate.