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TIL casino mogul Steve Wynn gave up attending Yale Law School due to his father's gambling debt.

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rNKZd Today I learned that American couples only sleep with 1 duvet, large enough for the the two of them. And not separate ones. And they also have a weird thing called «top sheet»
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