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TIL A Man deposited a junk mail check for $95K into his account.

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GAvXj TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes
woxnP TIL Thurl Ravenscroft (voice of Tony the Tiger) is also the original vocalist for "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
QZYp TIL Jackie Chan is leaving his entire $130M fortune to charity upon his death. When asked about his son, Chan replied “If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.”
KY94G TIL that the universe's largest diamond is found on the white dwarf BPM 37093, which core crystallized turning it mostly into a diamond. The diamond is 10 billion trillion trillion carats, which made scientists give it the nickname Lucy after the iconic Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
xy01 TIL that when the Emperor told his people that Japan was surrendering in WWII, almost no one understood his Classical Japanese dialect!