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TIL of Prize Insurance, which companies buy instead of prizes for competitions. The policy pays out in the unlikely event that somebody wins the competition.

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78JVX TIL that Amtrak not only runs trains, but also intercity bus services, transit buses, vans, taxis, and ferry boats. This allows passengers greater connection to areas not covered by trains
9MeX TIL Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while high on LSD. The MLB refuses to release footage saying its “an embarrassment to the league”.
vPG5B TIL there is an entire industry of "family offices": firms dedicated to managing enormous, secretive pools of generational wealth for "ultra-high-net-worth individuals"
XEpZj TIL that when Dwayne Johnson split with his now ex-wife Dany Garcia, he made her his manager and she has remained in that role to this day.
7Jo7 TIL a “micromort” is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries. For example, going skydiving is 9 micromorts, meaning that there is a 9/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip.