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TIL the 9 minute alarm clock "Snooze" is a holdover from when clocks had mechanical gears

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oRWaA TIL about Patrick Combs, who deposited a $95,000 junk mail promotional check in 1995, only to see the bank clear it!
9lOX TIL that within 5 years of retirement 60% of NBA players go broke. While within 2 years of retirement 78% of NFL players are bankrupt or in financial stress.
wZbW TIL Charles Schwab met a bunch of black American soldiers on a boat’s commissary in 1919, and as an experiment offered to lend them each a dollar. He gave them all his address, if they wanted to pay him back. 138 of 154 men did, almost 90%.
5VvL9 TIL the MLB blocked "Budweiser Stadium" over alcohol ad concerns, so the Busch family named it Busch Stadium and later launched Busch beer to leverage the name.
pKeG TIL Several scientific studies have concluded that money does indeed buy happiness