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TIL The UK had to cancel a lottery because players didn’t understand negative numbers

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awv60 TIL that in 1948 a man became fatally stuck underneath his tractor, and used his pocketknife to scratch the words "In case I die in this mess, I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo Harris" into the fender. His scratching constituted a valid will.
Wk1bX TIL: Despite Overwhelming Evidence Against Him, John Wayne Gacy was never "Caught." Instead he folded under constant police surveillance which caused his mental state to deteriorate and cleared to air to his lawyer, who informed the police that he had killed thirty people
60RX TIL that after the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years”. 20 years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out.
Gap5 TIL that Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl in the original Popeye cartoon, voiced Popeye himself in a few shorts where his voice actor, Jack Mercer, was unavailable
kOxa4 TIL There is a large statue of Sonic the Hedgehog in a remote village in Japan. Local farmers purchased it from a closed SEGA theme park about two decades ago.