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TIL that Comedian Dick Shawn died on stage and the audience thought it was part of the act.

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GAao7 TIL that Curtis Priem, one of Nvidias co-founders, left the company in 2003 and sold all his shares by 2006. Today, his net worth is $30 million, but if he had held onto his Nvidia shares, his net worth would be roughly $70 Billion.
ne0vB TIL - in 1941 people in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon started a push to form a new US State called Jefferson. The counties for a couple weeks would "secede every Thursday," using rifles to interdict drivers on Route 99 and hand them copies of their proclamation of independence.
awvwb TIL in 2017, a man stopped to be interviewed on the street by a local news reporter about public transit issues, only to be identified by viewers as a suspect who attempted to rob three banks shortly before. This ultimately led to his identification and arrest.
yxov TIL that the 30 year old Sega Master System (released in 1986) is still sold in Brazil and even in 2015, 150,000 units were sold.
gMM4W And what, if anything, could’ve prevented it?