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TIL of a jobless Irish lady who won a lotto jackpot of $46m. She now plans to donate all but $2m to her town and to give local people a chance. She said “I know what it’s like to have nothing …that’s why I’m giving it away - I can’t miss what I never had.”

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OEJL TIL that the last episode of Angry Beavers never aired because the voice actors broke two of Nickelodeon’s rules:that a show doesn’t acknowledge an episode is the last episode, and the other rule being a show doesn’t break the fourth wall
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