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TIL that when Buddy Holly died 6 months after being married, his widow inherited everything but signed 50% over to his family.

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GYjX4 TIL The only White Giraffe on the planet is found in Kenya and is fitted with a GPS system to detect poachers
VA6B TIL an actor who appeared as an extra in 12 episodes of the original Star Trek series – and whose face can be seen clearly in at least one episode – was never credited and his identity remains uncertain to this day
OoRba TIL of the Walleye War, a fishing dispute that took place in Minnesota in the 1990s and nearly resulted in a portion of the US being ceded to Canada.
b99GZ TIL of Christian Gerhartsreiter, In 1995 while using the assumed identity "Clark Rockefeller", of the famed Rockefeller family, he married a successful businesswoman with whom he had a daughter
4XAZJ TIL of Twitch Plays Pokemon. A social experiment where internet users collaborated to beat Pokemon Red in just over 16 days. Generally regarded as a classic internet moment, the event holds the world record for "the most participants on a single-player online videogame" with 1,165,140.