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TIL Americans spend more money on Lotteries than on movies, video games, books, music and sports tickets – combined.

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JLnl TIL actor Danny Trejo does not do his own stunts because he says “I don’t want to risk 80 people’s jobs just so I can say I have big nuts.”
jmJX TIL the cheapest Michelin Star rated Restaurant in the world is the “HK Soya Sauce Chicken, Rice & Noodle” food stand in Singapore, a single meal will cost you just $1.50 (USD). It was also the first-ever street food stand to receive a Michelin Star.
dDmNK TIL that Plato discovered 5 platonic regular form shapes. But Frank Chester discovered a sixth that is the same shape of the human heart and it is called a Chestahedron.
x8eg TIL that Russia signed a treaty banning bio-weapons, but ignored the treaty and continued developing them - even building ICBMs that could be loaded with weaponized smallpox, anthrax, typhus & rabies. After the fall of the USSR, they lost most of the bioweapons. Their locations remain unknown.
06Dy TIL a man faked mental illness to escape jail, was sent to an asylum and has been trying since to convince doctors he’s sane. He’s been diagnosed a psychopath ‘cause in part, “Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence is exactly the kind of manipulative act you’d expect of a psychopath.”