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TIL Sex and alcohol make you happier than kids and religion

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epkP6 TIL about Tayeb Souami, a New Jersey, originally from Africa, who bought a $5 orange juice from Shoprite. His wife sent him back to return it and get it for $2.50 at a different supermarket. With the refund and $2.50 savings, he bought 2 lottery tickets on a whim and won $315.3 million!
p8d4Z TIL In 2011 billionaire Oprah Winfrey found out she has a sister she never knew existed and now takes care of her financially because Oprah was so impressed by her sisters loyalty. She spent 4 years trying to contact Oprah with no luck and never once tried to sell the story to the press.
9YeVm TIL Beneath the streets of Cincinnati OH is the largest abandoned subway tunnel system in the US. Construction began in the 1910s but was halted by WWI and then canceled indefinitely during the Great Depression.
LQPld TIL about Langton’s Ant, a simple computer simulation where an "ant" moves on a grid with only two rules, producing thousands of chaotic steps before eventually creating an endless, repeating highway pattern.
QNxPX TIL that about 70-85 million people died in the world war 2