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TIL in 1992 an Australian gambling syndicate bought almost all the combinations in a Virginia lottery and won, turning a $5M purchase into a $27M winnings

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x6rR0 TIL that the Ten Commandments contain fourteen distinct un-numbered directives, and there are at least eight competing traditions of how to combine different directives to get to ten.
QNEjp TIL about "Bathing Machines" ... Portable Huts that, in the 18th and early 19th-Centuries, were rolled into the ocean to allow bathers to "changes into whatever shapeless sack was deemed suitable at the time" to go swimming.
69AYJ TIL of Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian communist who made his own defence when put on trial by the Nazis for the Reichstag Fire. Acquitted, he eventually became the leader of communist Bulgaria after WW2.
pGPQ Today I learned that Gavin Free of Youtube’s TheSlowMoGuys was the Slow Motion Cinematographer for Hot Fuzz, the Red vs. Blue Series, and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
LkjGp TIL - Six Flags used to stage mock Union-spy executions in their Confederate-themed area