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TIL that a billionaire hedge fund manager once paid Kenny Rogers $4 Million to sing The Gambler over and over a dozen times at his birthday party.

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PYgOG TIL The scientific name for the Eurasian brown bear is ursus arctos arctos, which means in Latin and Greek, respectively, bear bear bear.
QLEM TIL: The correct way to bribe people, and how the bribery system works in 3rd world countries (courtesy of John McAfee)
KgQ6 TIL that spammers will pay people in countries such as India & China pennies per hour to continuously solve CAPTCHA codes.