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TIL in 2023 a man called the cage supervisor at the Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas posing as the hotel's co-owner & convinced them to delivery 4 installments of cash totaling $1.17m to multiple off-site locations by telling them the fire department needed money. He received a suspended sentence.

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W7579 TIL A 1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched Sesame Street before they were three years old.
xJ7b TIL credit bureaus must respond to disputes within 30 calendar days of filing, or the dispute is removed from a credit report. If a dispute is filed in, say, mid-December, those 30 days include the time the office is closed for the holidays (and the backup created because of that).
4RZw TIL that cheap pink White Zinfandel aka “jug wine” was invented by mistake. Instead of dumping it, Sutter Home bottled it, marketed it and it’s been the 3rd top selling wine in the U.S. for more than 30 years, making the owners fabulously wealthy and angering wine snobs.
kvjg TIL that there is an island in the Maroni River on the French Guiana/Suriname border which was formed when a British ship “Edith Cavell” ran aground. The shipwreck is covered in foliage.
0wdlM TIL According to Plutarch the traitor Bessus was executed by having two trees forcibly bent towards each other, tied him to both, and then the trees released, causing an agonizing death in which the ligaments, tendons, muscles and organs would slowly come apart as the trees straightened