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TIL Manny Pacquiao built 1000 homes for poor Filipinos with the money he has won from boxing

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Z87bB TIL In 2001 Charles Ingram won the grand prize (£1,000,000) on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” by having a friend in the audience cough on the right answer. He was suspected of cheating, and after review of the recordings the accusation was confirmed. He was charged for deception.
9YPM7 TIL that around 2,000 coyotes live in and around downtown Chicago. One GPS-collared coyote and his mate even raised a litter of healthy pups inside a secret concrete den in the parking lot of Soldier Field Stadium
9wO86 TIL that Oppenheimer wrote out a will that left his estate to the University of California to be used for graduate scholarships.
YZjA TIL contrary to urban legend, the woman who accepted Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award was in fact a Native American. Sacheen Littlefeather was born Maria Cruz to a white mother & full-blooded (but mixed tribe) Native dad. John Wayne had to be restrained from dragging her off stage.
epMB5 TIL the closest living relatives of the Muskox are sheep and goats