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TIL:A billionaire spent decades giving away his fortune so he could die broke.

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awdk0 TIL a 2000 Japanese study suggested that “moderate drinking” could actually boost a person’s IQ.
KYKN6 TIL when Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote in the 1904 election, he won by the largest popular vote margin since James Monroe in 1820.
oQA7 TIL that Bill Watterson, the author of “Calvin and Hobbes”, believed that adapting the comic to any other medium would compromise its integrity. He believed this so strongly that he turned down personal calls from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas offering to make animated movies.
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