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TIL The Richest Athlete of All Time Did Nothing With His Wealth and Vanished Into History

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kOPN1 TIL that two French inventors who had never heard of each other before presented nearly identical techniques for producing color photographs on the same day in 1869 to the French Society for Photography.
e0pRg TIL Far More English Coins Have Been Found in Scandinavia than in England from the Period of Viking Invasions
KOeO9 TIL that, since 1945, the only artists who could have - at one point - claimed to have the biggest selling album of all time were Vaughn Meader (The First Family), Carole King (Tapestry) and the BeeGees (Saturday Night Fever), before Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1984.
mOeO TIL a lawyer in Toronto fell to his death in 1993 after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of a building in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was “unbreakable”, an act he had done twice before. The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame
pvZ4 TIL Tupac Shakur shot two off duty police officers who were assaulting a young man. Charges against Shakur were dropped because the officers were intoxicated and in possession of stolen guns