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TIL In 1913, a roulette wheel landed on black 26 times in a row. Shortly after, gamblers revisited the wheel to lose millions of francs betting against black, and a statistical fallacy was born.

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kOXGe TIL of the Teapot Dome Scandal: Between 1921-1923 during Harden's presidency, the Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in exchange for $200k worth of liberty bonds. He became the first Cabinet secretary to go to prison.
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5YDP TIL Chinese leader Mao Zedong from 1958 - 1962, murdered 45 million of his own citizens. Death toll during World War 2 was 55 million worldwide.
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