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TIL UnitedHealth Group made $23 billion in profit last year, over 4x what it made a decade ago

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LQLer TIL that in 1958, author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but was forced by the communist party to abstain form accepting the award
lo7ar TIL that recently-ousted Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe won a lottery of 100,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about $2,600) in 2000. The lottery was organised by a partly state-owned bank and was open to all clients who had kept Z$5,000 or more in their accounts during December 1999.
Me757 TIL about the Australian hoax "drop bears" intended to frighten outsiders and tourists by convincing them that some treetops were inhabited by sharp-toothed flesh-eating koala that could drop down from great heights (8 + meters) and attack.
BrljK TIL that in 2017, a Florida man who had written a self-help book about saving a marriage through communication, killed his wife and posted a picture of her dead body on Facebook.
ANLAx TIL about how the Royals of Hawai'i went to Queen Victoria's golden Jubilee and that Queen Kapi'olani of the Hawaiian islands was seated two seats to Queen Victoria, a Sign that she was a guest of high status.