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TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman did not want his children to be "trust fund babies" so he did not create a trust. This resulted in a $12 million estate tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust fund.

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E1Ex0 TIL about Sholam Weiss, a man who led a scheme that defrauded a life insurance company out of $450 million. For his crimes he was sentenced to 845 years in US federal prison, later reduced to 835 years, and his projected release date is November 23, 2754.
GAWeE TIL that Xmas is has historically been used as far back as the 16th century and the X is a Greek substitution for their letter χ pronounced “chi” in place of the first character of the Greek for Christ - Χριστός
BDyk TIL the first athlete to be disqualified at the Olympics for drug use was a Swedish pentathlete who drank two beers before his shooting event to calm his nerves.
5VxwB TIL that silverfish and bristletails are the only insects that don't undergo metamorphosis.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere