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TIL that someone became an actual millionaire by selling virtual real estate in the game ‘Second Life’

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lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
a8ejJ TIL Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish neurologist that escaped Nazi Germany, founded what would become the Paralympic Games in 1948 with the Stoke Mandeville Games. Guttmann believed sport was a major form of therapy for disabled people
M7DAK TIL that you dressed up for Halloween to trick monsters and angry spirits that come back once a year
v1GOR TIL - In 1836, a sewer worker accidentally discovered an old drain which ran directly into the Bank of England's gold vault. He wrote letters to the directors of the bank and requested a meeting inside the vault at an hour of their choosing - and popped out of the floor to greet them
J195k TIL more than a quarter of the world's captive-bred panda population are descendants of one male panda named Pan Pan