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TIL Chris Tucker has a net worth of negative 11 million dollars and faces potential jail time.

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MeJ7V TIL of Kazimierz Piechowski, a Holocaust Survivor, who, along with three other Polish inmates under the age of 21, successfully escaped Auschwitz by stealing a commandant's car, driving to the entrance posing in stolen Nazi uniforms, and demanding the guards to open the gate.
kOE1m TIL of Jean Mill, a cat breeder and conservationist who worked to protect the asian leopard cat, she disliked the fur trade so much that she successfully crossed an asian leopard with a domestic cat, creating the Bengal Cat breed, such that people can own cats with the same style of fur.
VB008 TIL that in the UK, sports teams being relocated is extremely uncommon compared to the US, since the local football club is regarded by most English football supporters as part of the local identity and social fabric, rather than as a business that can be transplanted by its owners at will.
6rgY TIL that looting of DJ equipment during the 1977 New York City blackout contributed to the rise of hip hop.
yQdZe TIL that you couldn't take a calculus classes when Harvard started because calculus hadn't been formally discovered yet.