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TIL in 2003 some largely unkown online poker player came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker and win 2.5$. His real name was 'Christopher Moneymaker.' His win was said to revolutionize poker, and caused a great boom in popularity, called 'The Moneymaker Effect'

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XEWEP TIL as the child of an international lawyer, Jeopardy! "Greatest of All Time" champion and interim host Ken Jennings grew up in South Korea and Singapore. He only began living in the United States permanently upon admission to the University of Washington in the 1990s.
DyrP TIL Sacagawea was kidnapped at 12, sold as a slave and forced into marriage at 13, and was 15 years old and 6 months pregnant when she joined Lewis & Clark’s expedition.
R7NA1 TIL that a Greek man named Heron Alexandrinus, who was born in 10AD, invented the first steam engine, called an Aeolipile. His design was forgotten and never used until 1577.
kOR91 TIL in 1980, Monica Myers, mayor of Betterton, Maryland, died while checking her towns sewage tanks. She fell in and drowned in 15ft of human waste.
Wk4LA TIL late medieval and early modern European cartographers believed that compasses consistently pointed North because there was a massive, perfectly circular island made of naturally-magnetic black rock at the North Pole.