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TIL Omicron Persei is a real star about 1000 light years away from Earth

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VMOZ0 TIL that in 2012, a “guru” tricked a French family out of €4.5M by convincing them that they were the target of a secret conspiracy and that their lives were in danger. He persuaded them into barricading themselves into their family chateau, and then in a suburban house in Oxford.
lJEK TIL Donkey Kong, Mario, and Princess Peach are based off of characters from Popeye. Nintendo created it after they failed to obtain a license to make a Popeye video game.
PYaxg TIL of the Greater Fool Theory, which states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.
78o8L TIL Harry Connick Jr is 56 but still uses a suffix professionally as his father is still alive at 97. Harry Connick Sr was the district attorney for Orleans Parish in Louisiana for 30 years before retiring 20 years ago.
5V1GR TIL the first automat - a type of fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine without waitstaff - was introduced in Berlin in 1895.