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TIL two friends named Thomas Cook & Joseph Feeney shook hands in 1992 and promised that if one of them ever won the Powerball jackpot, he would split the winnings with the other. In 2020, Cook upheld their 28-yr-old agreement after he won $22m. They both chose the cash option & took home $5.7m each.

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1eNr TIL the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 required that a racial description of every person be recorded at birth and divided society into only two classifications: white and colored. It also expanded Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage by criminalizing all marriages between whites and non-whites
nWL47 TIL that several crew members onboard the Challenger space shuttle survived the initial breakup. It is theorized that some were conscious until they hit the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
e0JyJ TIL the movie Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was written, directed, and starred by the same person (Steve Oedekerk). He used footage from a 1976 Hong Kong film and filmed new scenes to create a new plot. He re-dubbed all characters himself (except for the character Whoa).
VMEv4 TIL homeowners associations (HOAs) have their roots in Jim Crow-era policies, originally organized to impart restrictions on who moved into their neighborhoods along mostly racial lines.
kOxVB TIL a man was cooked alive in a 270° pressure cooker oven along with 12,000 pounds of tuna. In CA’s largest workplace safety violation settlement ever ($6M), Bumble Bee Tuna agreed to pay $1.5M to the deceased’s family, $1.5M to state government and courts, and $3M to purchase new automated ovens.