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TIL of Nick the Greek. It is estimated that he won and lost over $500 million in his lifetime (Died 1966). He himself claimed that he went from rags to riches over 73 times. He donated over $20 million to education and charity.

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vPZK7 TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.
l7Kmr TIL the current world record for longest throw of a baseball was set by Canadian Glen Gorbous in 1957. He threw a baseball nearly 446 feet, from the right field corner to the left field corner.
epVrb TIL Whale falls are a major source of nutrients for the ocean's bathyal or abyssal zones. The remains of an estimated 690,000 whales are being broken down on the ocean floor, with the bodies being picked clean, the skeletons dissolved, and ultimately a reef formed.
LZVV TIL as soon as 2100 Humanity could begin to suffocate due to an average 6 degree Celsius increase in temperature disrupting the process of photosynthesis in two thirds of the world’s oxygen producing organisms.
OZn7 TIL a filmmaker, in order to expose “the general absurdity of what we all believe,” became a fake spiritual guru and ended up with a real group of followers who called him “the living embodiment of the divine.”