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TIL in 1995 a man deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.35, and it cashed. The bank took too long to realise and the money was now legally his.

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P7lg TIL the polish mathematicians were the first to break the enigma code. Not the British.
aXDA TIL if Michael Phelps were a country he would be tied for 48th all time for Gold medals (13) and 64th all time for total medals (22). That includes summer and winter games.
yQdp TIL that the reason one is 1, two is 2, three is 3, etc. is because the ancient Arabic versions of 0-9 numbers had the corresponding number of angles in their symbols. (1 has one angle, 2 has two, and so on)
Brg8W TIL that Byzantium not only developed sophisticated systems for taxation, justice, administration, and military deployment, but is also rarely credited with refuting Aristotle’s theory of falling bodies, one thousand years before Galileo.
ADkda TIL while in prison, US marines forced Saddham Hussein to watch the South Park Movie, which depicts him as gay and dating satan. The creators received a signed photo of Saddham in 2009 from the US Army 4th Infantry Division.