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TIL that the unopened Fed Ex box in the movie "Castaway" may have contained a water proof, solar powered satellite phone

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BEgD TIL the highest earning sportsman in history is a Roman chariot racer called Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who earned, in today’s money, $15billion
wRL8 TIL that California generates so much solar power that at times the state will pay Arizona to take it.
6Ej0m TIL there used to be a seventh position in ice hockey called the rover who would contribute to both defense and offense as needed.
yQA6a TIL of Susanne Ripton, a Jew who survived the holocaust as a child. In 1940, when she was 4, soldiers broke into her home in Paris. She was saved when a neighbour rushed in and said that she was her daughter. She spent years hiding. In 1969, she discovered her parents had been killed at Auschwitz.
8QKV TIL that if Earth’s entire history was viewed as a 24 hour period, humans would only represent 1 minute and 17 seconds.