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TIL 78% of NFL players are bankrupt just two years after finishing their careers.

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Rxx8 TIL: In 2011 drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The survivors would be informed of new purpose in life as assassins for gang.
E1LEw TIL Jimmy Buffett is one of the world's richest musicians, with a net worth of $550 million. "Margaritaville Holdings, owned solely by Buffett and his business partner John Cohlan, now umbrellas everything from branded casinos, restaurants, and resorts across the world to[...] Landshark Lager"
69A5w TIL in September 1968, Russian cosmonauts fooled NASA into thinking they were landing on the moon using radio relays from Zond 5, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. The cosmonauts knew they would never make it to the moon so they decided to engage in “a little bit of hooliganism.”
bKA0 TIL Katie Holmes’ father negotiated a prenuptial agreement for her that reportedly filled five bankers’ boxes. Because of it, when Katie Holmes made her bombshell announcement that she was divorcing Tom Cruise, the case was able to be resolved in a mere 11 days.
9YOLM TIL that in the US the Rod of Asclepius, symbol of the deity associated with healing and medicine, is often confused with the staff of the god Hermes, the caduceus.