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TIL of Bill Morgan, who survived clinical death, won the lottery, and then won again while reenacting it on camera.

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46RR TIL that 11 squared is 121, 111 squared is 12321, 1111 squared is 1234321, and so on, leading up to 111111111 squared, which is 12345678987654321. Such results are known as palindromic numbers
loN1A TIL that a murderer will spend, on average, 15 years in prison in the U.S. before being released.
pYE8A TIL that before alarm clocks were common, people known as "knocker-uppers" were employed to wake workers by tapping on their windows with long sticks.
vPjYR TIL that Hitler's surname was a clerical mistake. Alois Schicklgruber, Adolf's father, sought to change his last name to his stepfather's, Hiedler. Authorities mistakenly recorded it as "Hitler", thus etching this infamous name into history
LnY0 TIL before the 1800s, people had “first” and “second sleep”. They would sleep 3-4 hours, wake up for 2-3 hours to do some type of activity, then go back to sleep until morning.