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TIL Annabella Lwin joined Bow Wow Wow, at 13, appeared nude on an album cover at 14, and was 15 when they recorded “I Want Candy”

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0dr9M TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
X0PoQ TIL taking fish supplements daily for the past 15 years might not have been a good idea after all
l6j1 TIL a professor of genetics at Stanford university believes that human intelligence peaked 1,000 years ago, and we’ve been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since.
kO44d TIL the setting knob on toasters isn't a timer. It determines "doneness" by a thermal sensor that responds to how much heat is passing through the toast
Z8bPB TIL That the painting "The Concert" by Johannes Vermee, stolen in 1990 during the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft, is still considered by many experts to be the most expensive object ever stolen. It was valued at 250 million dollars in 2015.