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TIL Joel Osteen lives in a ten million dollar mansion

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OooXL TIL potatoes and corn came to Spain from the Americas. Prior to this, chestnuts and acorns were the base food used to make flour and many traditional dishes.
MeNdb TIL mosquitos cause more deaths in a single day then sharks have in the past 100 years.
Q8Mp TIL Al Capone’s brother was a distinguished prohibition agent and acted as bodyguard to a US president.
OoxxL TIL that the official pronunciation (per NIST) for the prefix Giga is with a soft G. For example, Gigabyte is pronounced "Jigabyte" not "Gigabyte".
6EGnm TIL of Bill Werbeniuk, a big drinking Canadian Snooker player . He drank 43 pints of lager in a drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair. After Sinclair passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say “I’m away to the bar now for a proper drink”