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TIL when economist Robert Lucas and wife Rita Lucas split up in 1989, one of the conditions of divorce was if he won a Nobel prize within 31 Oct 1995, half of the prize money would go to her. Robert Lucas won a Nobel with $1 million for his theory about 'rational expectations' on 10 Oct 1995.

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XEDnE TIL That in 1968 John Lennon, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell and Eric Clapton played a gig as a band called 'The Dirty Mac' for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll circus, a filmed concert that was only released in 1996.
v1bnD TIL the common expression "OK" didn't exist prior to 1839 and was coined as a joke. In the writing of the time it was popular to make fun abbreviations similar to our OMG or even TIL, and "OK" was one of them.
0odp TIL Cleaning woman in Italy threw away artworks worth $13700 that were part of modern art installation thinking it was trash.
JZE4 TIL that Pinball was considered gambling and banned between the 1940s to 1976. It ended when enthusiast Roger Sharpe played it before a committee and called out precisely what he was going to shoot for, and then did so. The ban was lifted since he had proven it was a game of skill, not chance.
J1OK8 TIL about Osama Bin Laden, a rogue bull elephant who killed at least 27 people and wreaked havoc in the Indian state of Assam in the early 2000’s.