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TIL of Belphegor’s prime. A 31-digit, palindromic prime number named after the prince of Hell responsible for ingenious inventions: 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001.

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Dxjg TIL a Florida millionaire was being sued for a wrongful death resulting from DUI, so he adopted his 42 year-old girlfried because the court had ruled that the trust set up for his children could not be considered as part of his financial worth.
xVRaw TIL of Lady Lucy Houston, a British philanthropist who, after WWI, recognized the need for a strong Air Force... when the British government refused, she funded development of what became the Spitfire. She passed before WWII, and never saw how much that investment paid off.
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