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TIL the original soundtrack of “Who wants to be a millionaire” took the pitch up a semitone for each subsequent question, in order to increase tension as the contestant progressed through the game.

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Jgy1 TIL that 6 of the 10 windiest US cities are in Massachusetts. And Chicago isn’t even in the top 100.
WG7d TIL A woman confessed to trying to kill her husband by putting poison in her vagina and urging him to have oral sex with her. One commentator dubbed the murder plot “cunning cunnilingus.”
kyNE TIL of Bill Morgan, a man who won a car in the lottery after being deemed clinically dead for over 14 minutes and in a coma for 12 days. Then, when a local news show asked to film a reenactment, he won $250,000 while the cameras rolled.
8aklL TIL NASA has their own SWAT Team
6bZ7 TIL a Broward County, Florida man has had 16 accidents, received 25 warning slips, and served 30 days unpaid suspension since 1994 due to bad driving. He is a Mass Transit bus driver for the county and, although his disciplinary troubles began only 8 days after he was hired, he is still employed.