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TIL that a man memorized all the prices of past items on The Price is Right, and repeatedly helped contestants win, until he was banned from the show for 10 years.

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X0X9P TIL the last Communist leader of East Germany, Egon Krenz, is still alive. He spent 4 years in prison for crimes committed as a high-ranking politician in East Germany. He also still defends the former East Germany, is a Russophile, and believes that the Cold War never ended.
RLM7 TIL when you look in the sky and see dots and swirls, it’s not a illusion. It is actually the shadows of white blood cells reflecting off of your retina.
8pLL TIL Goodwill is a multibillion dollar company, but pays some of it’s disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour due to a legal loophole.
OG087 TIL of Nakahama Manjirō, a 14-year-old fisherman who was shipwrecked on an island with four friends. They were rescued by an American whaleship, who took them to Honolulu, where his friends stayed. Manjirō continued on to Massachusetts and become the first Japanese person to land on mainland USA.
vOlj TIL: Andrew Jackson’s parrot was ejected from his funeral for swearing