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TIL Roughly 114 prizes worth $1 million or more went unclaimed in 2015. In fact, about $2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed every year.

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x6erw TIL a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift, but ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
M7rj0 TIL about Daniel Daly who was awarded the Medal of Honor twice and was nominated for a third for his actions in WW1. He was denied his third Medal of Honor but was instead awarded with Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the French Médaille Militaire
XJEX TIL that NBC censored a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 bombings from the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony coverage because ‘it wasn’t about America’
DQ7me TIL after people are diagnosed with heart disease, less than 60 percent of all patients take a statin.
4kEb5 TIL it was the 70-year-old financer and the Richest Banker in the country J.P. Morgan who pledged massive amount of personal funds to provide liquidity and stabilize the situation during the Bank Panic of 1907