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TIL When Indian reservations started to earn big money from casinos, they began expelling their own members by the thousands to increase the payout for those who remained.

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KO8Ga TIL: Due to geothermal energy, Iceland produces over a tonne of tomatoes every day
neywB TIL Robert Ross won a Nobel prize for his work on how to control epidemics
W7RJA TIL that there are wild Wallabies on the Isle of Man
xVPmb TIL Socrates claimed all his wisdom came from a voice in his head that told him what not to do but never what to do. The reason he was arrested wasn't just that he did not believe in Athen's gods, but that he presented this voice in his head as a new god.
9wQ1B TIL in December of 1996, a crime novelist was found hanged by a noose from his Chicago office window. Although officially ruled to be suicide, several items were found on him including a bulletproof vest, brass knuckles, mace and an unfinished novel that oddly contained a similar suicide scene.