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TIL after a woman put $40 into a lottery vending machine with the intention of buying multiple cheaper tickets, "some rude person" bumped into her & caused her to accidentally select a $30 ticket. She was annoyed until she started scratching that ticket & realized she'd won the $10 million jackpot.

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5966869125 days ago

TIL that Nvidia founder Jensen Huang's parents sold nearly everything they owned to send him to what they thought was a prestigious boarding school but which was in fact a reformatory for troubled kids. He taught his 17 year old roommate how to read in exchange for help working out.

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46842119810 days ago

TIL that George Washington died with a net worth of $594.2 million in today’s money, and drew a presidential salary of $25,000 (~$900k today) which was around 2% of the government’s budget at the time.

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45858149125 days ago

TIL that Stephen King was so obsessed with Lou Bega’s Mambo No. 5 that his wife threatened to divorce him over it.

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45377134719 days ago

TIL the oldest bones found in Antarctica belonged to an indigenous woman from Chile who died in her early 20s. Found on a beach, it's estimated she came to Antarctica between 1819 and 1825. There are no surviving documents explaining how or why a young woman came to be in Antarctica during this era

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44038126318 days ago

TIL a man escaped from a federal prison in Illinois after jumping over two 15 foot fences only to turn himself in to the FBI 4 days later to show them his desalination invention.

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37997105620 days ago

TIL that, immediately after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an order came down from the Secretary of the Navy to destroy all personal logs associated with the use of the presidential yacht USS Sequoia during the Kennedy Administration.

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3708569719 days ago

TIL that Hitler's bodyguard, Rochus Misch, lived long enough to see the film Downfall depicting Hitler's final days in the bunker. He commented on the historical accuracy, stating that Hitler did far less yelling. He also noted that the scene where he contemplates suicide was different from reality.

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36373107824 days ago

TIL Marcy Borders, a 28-year-old employee in the World Trade Center, survived the building’s collapse on September 11, 2001. Her picture, showed her completely covered in dust. The image became widely recognized, and Borders became known as "The Dust Lady." She passed away from cancer on 08/24/2015.

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3590858122 days ago

TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening was born to Homer and Marge Groening (neé Wiggum) and two of his siblings are called Maggie and Lisa. His grandfather is Abram A. Groening

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3546365613 days ago

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