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TIL if you bought $100 of bitcoin 7 years ago, you’d be sitting on $72.9 million

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YpXdW TIL while filming ‘The Princess Bride,’ André the Giant said his favorite thing about being on set was that “nobody looked at him strangely or singled him out because of his immense size.”
e00Ak TIL Walt Whitman published a self-help series called Manly Health and Training under a pen name. It recommended beards, nude sunbathing, comfortable shoes, bathing daily in cold water, eating meat almost exclusively, plenty of fresh air, and getting up early.
xVPKg TIL Frank Sinatra's classic song My Way has been blamed for several karaoke-related murders in the Philippines. Dubbed "My Way killings", the murders have led many karaoke bars to ban the song.
Pb5V TIL that there are only 10 modern countries that have never been (in their entirety) a colony of a European empire: Liberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North/South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.