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TIL a woman from Texas won multimillion lotteries 4 times. The “luckiest woman in the world” is a former math professor who holds a PhD from Stanford.

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kOQAg TIL that there is a Finnish-based, mostly antisocial form of drinking culture, in which the alcoholic consumes alcohol drinks at home in as little clothing as possible, mainly in underwear.
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AD4kx TIL that in 1869, physicist Ludvig Lorenz developed an equation for the relationship between the refractive index of a medium and it's density. In 1878, unrelated physicist Hendrick Lorentz independantly discovered the same equation. The result is called the Lorentz–Lorenz equation.
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