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TIL That when Oprah gifted cars to her entire audience, she refused to pay the taxes on the gifts, hence only allowing people willing to pay the gift tax (up to ~10k) to walk away with a car.

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d8Z1r TIL that the couple in the Pulitzer-Prize photo “Burst of Joy” divorced within a year and the husband, Robert Stirm, who had spent over five years in a North Vietnamese prison, was forced to give 43% of his retirement to his ex-wife.
dBk8 TIL of Tetris Syndrome, which is when you play a game too long and you start to dream about it, and hallucinate about it on the edges of your vision.
ZpRpR TIL: flesh eating parasite screw worm is reemerging in north America, this parasite was eradicated in the 1960s from the united sates saving ~900 million annually.
o6K7 TIL in 2016, Amsterdam Police officers broke down a door to rescue a woman in lingerie standing listlessly at a window. Worried she may be hurt, they first tried to get her attention by ringing the doorbell and banging on the door. They then broke the door down to discover she was a blow-up sex doll
dDlNj TIL that Grigori Perelman, the only mathematician to have solved a millenium prize problem, declined the US $1 million prize because it was not also offered to Richard S. Hamilton, upon whose work Perelman built.