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TIL in 2002, a 44-year-old street vendor won the grand prize on the Thai version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire thanks to a computer error led to the player being fed every right answers. The cable feeding her the answers on the computer screen was supposed to be hooked up to the host's computer.

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