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TIL of Ida Wood, who lived 24 years with her sister in a hotel room in NYC without leaving the room and any contact to the outside world

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woPNo TIL despite her repeated claims of being more than 85% accurate, a 2013 article found that Sylvia Browne, who claimed to be a psychic, was accurate in none of her 33 predictions. For instance, she predicted that she would die at the age of 88, but she passed away at the age of 77.
E1yx7 TIL that a type face that leans to the right is Italic. If it leans to the left, it's Iranic.
Oo7x6 TIL of Richard Tarvin III. A man who sold part of his structured settlement annuity (SSA) worth more than $400,000 to J.G. Wentworth claims the financial services company took advantage of him and fraudulently advised him to use an attorney who was not "disinterested counsel."
4Xm6o TIL the small elephant hawk moth (Deilephila porcellus) gets its common name for the caterpillar head's resemblance to an elephant's trunk. Hawk moths are also known as sphinx moths because the caterpillar resembles the Great Sphinx of Giza when resting. They are found in Europe and northern Africa.
Z8Era TIL That after stepping down in 1990, Augusto Pinochet remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army under the democratic government until 1998.