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TIL that after seeing the movie about Davey Crocket at age 5, Phil Collins developed a life-long interest in the Battle of the Alamo. Over time he acquired over 200 original historical artifacts related to the battle, and donated them to be part of the Alamo museum in 2014
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TIL that after seeing the movie about Davey Crocket at age 5, Phil Collins developed a life-long interest in the Battle of the Alamo. Over time he acquired over 200 original historical artifacts related to the battle, and donated them to be part of the Alamo museum in 2014

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u/MrMojoFomo — 1 hour ago
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As 2024, the average American 25 year-old made $56,000 per year, compared to $70,000 for their parents and $75,000 for their grandparents. At the same time, the home price-to-income ratio for young people is about 7 times income, where it was 4 and 3 times for previous generations

u/MrMojoFomo — 3 days ago
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TIL that pornography addiction is not a scientifically recognized medical condition

u/MrMojoFomo — 4 days ago
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Director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Crimson Tide, True Romance) died after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. He landed next to a tour boat

u/MrMojoFomo — 4 days ago
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TIL that Val Kilmer was not initially interested in auditioning for Top Gun (1986) and only did so at the behest of his agent. He read his audition lines "indifferently" and was disapointed when he learned he got the part

u/MrMojoFomo — 5 days ago
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Jack Ma, co-founder of Ali Baba and one-time richest person in China, criticized the nation's financial policies in 2020, and was rarely seen in public for the next 5 years

u/MrMojoFomo — 5 days ago
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TIL that Jack Ma, co-founder of Ali-Baba and former richest person in China, publicly criticized the nation's financial system in 2020, and then largely disappeared from public view for 5 years

u/MrMojoFomo — 6 days ago
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TIL of the Galton–Watson process, the process in which family names (surnames) go extinct. In China, for example, there are about 3,100 surnames, where in the past the number exceeded 12,000.

u/MrMojoFomo — 10 days ago