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TIL how alligators survive winters

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6EAg7 TIL Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand drawn maps. Gary would go on to invent the role playing game "Dungeons and Dragons"
MeB1a TIL that Nigerian scam made Emmanuel Nwude $242 million richer. He sold a non-existent airport to Nelson Sakaguchi, a director of bank. Nwude has become Nigeria's fraud kingpin after pulling off one of the biggest 'deals' in history.
dDp6E TIL A human placenta is worth $50,000
x6mxg TIL that the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan has a sealed glass vial that is reputed to contain Thomas Edison's last breath. Edison and Ford were longtime friends and the vial was given to Ford by Edison's son.
kOao5 TIL: For the first time in modern history, an effective and safe FDA-licensed inoculation was withdrawn from the market due to media sensationalism and lawsuits. It is unlikely any Lyme inoculation candidates will be developed in the near future within the United States due to these events.