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TIL in 2012 every household in the Spanish town, Sodeto (250 people in 70 households), except one collectively entered the lottery El Gordo & ended up winning $130K each. The only person not included was Costis Mitsotakis cause the local association who sold tickets door-to-door forgot to go to his.

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ObDg TIL that one of the reasons the Roman Empire fell was that they spent to much on the military and built a giant wall
9YZQG TIL that Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest grossing documentary of all time. It made 119.1 million dollars at the box office.
E1147 TIL that the letter J as we know it today was not invented until the mid 16th century.
vl9r TIL in 2007, Iraqi insurgents used the EXIF data from a picture taken of brand new Apache helicopters to find their exact coordinates and launched a mortar attack on them, destroying 4 Apache helicopters worth $30 million.
mxaoO TIL of Moctezuma's headdress, a featherwork crown which tradition holds belonged to Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It is now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, and is a source of dispute between Austria and Mexico, as no similar pieces remain in Mexico.