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TIL A man won the $5.5 million state lottery but had to forfeit the winnings because he bought the ticket with the proceeds of selling 36 grams of cocaine to a federal informant.

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N7gb8 TIL in the early 1900s, Dolly Korschel kept a secret lover in her attic for years, had the lover kill her husband after a fight, continued keeping the lover in her attic, and was charged with murder 8 years later but set free because there was a 7-year statute of limitations on murders at the time.
x6Ne0 TIL raw termites taste like pineapple and cooked termites have a delicate, vegetable flavor
oBPwY TIL There is a mental delusion called "The Truman Show delusion" where patients believed their lives were reality television shows. One traveled to NewYork to check whether the World Trade Center had actually fallen—believing 9/11 attacks to be an elaborate plot twist in his personal story line.
aVGb TIL the word “slut” was originally used in the 12th through the 15th century to describe a woman who didn’t keep her room clean.
WDQX TIL General Mills’ Wheaties cereal contain so many metal fragments they could actually be lifted with a magnet