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TIL a man cracked the code to winning scratch lottery tickets, but calculated it would only net him $600/day and instead of secretly plundering the game, he decided to report the problem to the Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

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ADwQ7 TIL "Maundy" as in Maundy Thursday comes from Latin mandatum (Eng. commandment) and symbolizes the new commandment given during the Last Supper.
69bg8 TIL a poll of 1,000 US visitors to Scotland found 33% thought haggis was an animal; 23% said they came to Scotland believing they could catch one. Haggis is a Scottish pudding traditionally boiled in a sheep's stomach filled with liver, heart, lung, oatmeal, suet, stock, onions and spices.
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rR1Me TIL when the head of Universal Studios saw a film by a young student named Steven Spielberg, he called him in for a meeting, offered him a 7-year contract and told him, "a lot of people will stick with you in success; I’ll stick with you in failure."