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TIL that the in the USA the top 55 jackpots won (all over $380m), are all higher than any other Lottery jackpot records elsewhere in the world!

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QJmnM TIL that a middle school football coach in Oregon was fired for trying to take his team to Hooters to celebrate the end of the season.
N7pP1 TIL about Cyrus the Great (c. 600–530 BC), who built the Persian empire (c. 550–330 BC) by respecting the people he conquered, putting an end to slavery in all his territory, and allowing all people (including Jews) to worship their own gods.
mxKkM TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")
yQKQX TIL that there is a monument to laboratory mice at a university in Siberia. The mouse is wearing a lab coat and knitting a DNA double helix, symbolizing the gradual progress of DNA research.
graB4 TIL in October 2005 a woman hanged herself in a tree near a residential road and was mistaken as a Halloween decoration for over 3 hours