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TIL in 2013 PayPal accidentally credited $92 quadrillion to a Pennsylvania man.

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woJy8 TIL virgin queen bees will release battle cries and fight to the death until only one remains in the hive
QNd5k TIL Mozart died at 35, and wrote 800 pieces, 22 pieces every year he lived.
JYdOQ TIL that since 2008, every single winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been from Indian origin.
4YGa TIL that on April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, his response was “Well, the people, I would say… There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
16gMX TIL that many people believe sharks don't get cancer; this is from a 1992 book, "Sharks Don't Get Cancer," which invented claims to sell shark cartilage as a cancer remedy