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TIL there’s a poker hand called Anna Kournikova because “it looks great but never wins”

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BgG9d TIL Hexie Maxie was the sole survivor of the worst single-vehicle car accident in American history. On July 31, 1954 a Buick's brakes failed — it hit a cliff, overturned, and burst into flames. 11 people were killed, including Maxie's own family. Severely burned, he still tried to save others.
loXW1 TIL Germany finally finished paying off debts from reparations required in the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010 - 92 years after the end of the war.
8a8JV TIL: Fashion houses would send handbags from their rivals to Snooki in a bid to damage their reputations.
0d4RN TIL the film Oppenheimer became the highest-grossing biopic ever in Sept 2023 when it surpassed the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody's $910 million total.
VjW8 TIL Woolworth’s (huge department store until the 1980’s) did not go out of business completely… it just got smaller and changed its name to Foot Locker