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TIL that in 2001 a Hooter’s restaurant held a sales contest for servers offering the prize of a new Toyota. When a server won, she was presented with a new “toy yoda”. She sued the restaurant for deception and won enough money to buy a new car.

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p60e TIL that the US government paid an average of $1.8 million to the families of the victims of 9/11
gMBZ4 TIL at age 17, Brock Lesnar joined the Army National Guard, where he was assigned to an office job after his red-green colorblindness was deemed hazardous to his desire to work with explosives
5VYN8 TIL in 2008, a woman died of blunt force craniocerebral trauma when a 75-pound (34 kg) spotted eagle ray leaped out of the water and knocked her over onto the deck of the vessel she was aboard. The spotted eagle ray also died at impact.
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vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.