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TIL Zoë Roth, known online as the Smiling Disaster Girl, sold the image of herself staring at the camera with a house fire behind her to a collector in 2021, earning US$486,716 from the transaction.

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GY9PN TIL In 1965 Milton Olive III sacrificed his own life to save a group of soldiers by smothering a live grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor award, becoming the first African American of the Vietnam War to do so.
BgmYb TIL that Arthur MacArthur IV, the only child of Douglas MacArthur of WWII fame, has been living a private life since his father’s death in 1964, living under an assumed name and residing in the Mayflower Hotel until 2004.
gML4X TIL: Before being a comedian, Burt Kreischer was featured in Rolling Stone for being a prolific 25 year old student partier at FSU and is thought to be the inspiration for Van Wilder.
4Xjg6 TIL In 1980 Marienetta Jirkowsky became the youngest and last woman killed attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. Fleeing East Germany with a friend and her fiance she was shot by border guards and died at the age of 18.
PYpLO TIL about solved games. Solved games are games whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming both players play the best possible moves. Tic-tac-toe is easily solvable. Chess may never be fully solved.