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TIL A guy faked his own death in order to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract

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KYw54 TIL that Duff McKagan (Guns and Roses), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Jim Matheos (Fates Warning), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Ryan Lewis (Lewis and Macklemore), Sir Mix A Lot, two Nobel Prize Winners, and Bill Gates' mother all went to Roosevelt High School, a public school in Seattle.
eNmJ TIL Chess was invented in India
wopx1 TIL that in 1671, a man named François Vatel was in charge of a 2000-person banquet to be held in the honor of Louis XIV. Vatel became distraught after a delivery of seafood was late, driving him to take his own life by running himself through his sword.
OG8A1 TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of proton) who was the student of Thomson (discoverer of electron).
Mede0 TIL that in 1998, during an economic crisis in Russia, teachers in western Siberia were being paid with vodka. The decision came about after attempts to pay them with toilet paper and funeral accessories 'provoked indignation'; other workers were offered bikes, cabbages and bras as payment.