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TIL Ada Lovelace died from uterine cancer at the age of 36

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dD9PE TIL that when his team was down 2 points with 8 seconds left and no timeouts, Nets coach Jason Kidd had a player bump into him, spilling a Coke on the court forcing a stoppage in play. He was fined $50k
GYJkN TIL Eric Carmen stole the music from Rachmaninoff for his hit "All By Myself" and the Rachmaninoff estate made him pay for it.
xVnbw TIL of a Jain festival “Kshamavani” (Forgiveness Day) wherein the followers ask for forgiveness, of all your dear ones, everyone whom they may have wronged, knowingly or unknowingly.
4kkow TIL that after the Shah of Iran's overthrow, he was reluctantly given medical treatment in Panama. Panama assigned him a "militantly Marxist sociology professor" as a chief bodyguard who "spent much time lecturing the Shah on how he deserved his fate" and was charged $21,000 a month for rent.
X5EQ TIL only 32 teams successfully completed the final temple run on the Nickelodeon game show “Legends of the Hidden Temple”