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TIL That the film 50 First Dates is based on a true story

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j7Qj TIL: A Billionaire hedge fund founder payed 800 New York teachers an extra $15,000 due to poor teacher salaries
5YoRQ TIL Governments have killed more people than every pandemic and war combined.
kJ7L1 TIL the last actor to win two consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards was Tom Hanks with wins in 1993 (Philadelphia) and 1994 (Forrest Gump). Neither of the 2023 Best Actor and Actress winners were nominated for 2024.
Xa8Q TIL: Of a Chechen terrorist attack in Moscow theater in 2002. Of the 130 people who died in the attack, only 1 was killed by terrorists, the other 129 were killed by the Russian special forces trying to rescue them.
grBWD TIL the richest person in the world was Mansa Musa, the 14th Century West African ruler, perhaps equal to $400bn in today's money. When he traveled to Cairo, he gave out so much gold that it depreciated the value of gold and caused over a billion dollars in economic losses in the Middle East.