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TIL about someone who predicted a merger and brought the relevant domain and now wants to sell it and fund his education. He is now being sued.

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5VxgP TIL In the 1790 census, a member of the House of Representatives had an average of 34,436 constituents. In the 2020 census, the average was 761,169.
lo0o1 TIL that Russia had Volga Finns historic group as its core, and not Slavs like Kievan Rus-Ukraine
gDOW TIL Robert Lincoln, Abe Lincoln’s son, was in line at an elevated station platform. The train mistakenly moved causing him to fall through an opening, but he was pulled up just in time to be saved. The hero was Edwin Booth, brother of the man who went on to assassinate Abe Lincoln 1-2 years later.
VMxG TIL that a computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.
wMn7 TIL that Count Dracula was first depicted wearing a Bela Lugosi-style cape/tuxedo combo in 1924 when the book was adapted for London stage. It was the only way to make it obvious that the Count was charming and sophisticated from a distance.