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TIL after a woman put $40 into a lottery vending machine with the intention of buying multiple cheaper tickets, "some rude person" bumped into her & caused her to accidentally select a $30 ticket. She was annoyed until she started scratching that ticket & realized she'd won the $10 million jackpot.

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JYkal TIL Vietnamese farmers after the war repurposed external fuel tanks jettisoned by American planes into river canoes, which have lasted for nearly 5 decades.
GaME TIL there’s a waterfall where nobody knows where the water goes. Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle Falls dumps into a giant pothole with no seeable exit. Researchers have poured dye, ping-pong balls, even logs into it, then watched the lake for any sign of them. So far, none have ever been found.
GY4XG TIL Kenny Rogers Roasters, a now defunct restaurant brand in the US has 156 locations in the throughout Asia
nWDZP TIL of German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. He created a list of nonsensical words to test his memory. He demonstrated that increased repetitions led to increased retention, graphing the relationship in what would be known as the learning curve.
nWvYY TIL The lighter was invented before the match