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TIL that a bartender from Oregon won $17.500 in the lottery after a customer tipped him with a lottery ticket. He tried to give it back but the customer let him have the money.

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ZpMRG TIL that the oldest Norman castle in England pre-dates the Norman conquest by ~15 years. It was built by a Norman knight named Richard Scrob, granted lands near the Welsh border by Edward the Confessor, though only earthworks survive today
DQoQr TIL A Japanese researcher took his own life after his research revealed the presence of Fireblight in native pear trees, resulting in a government cover-up and him being blamed by farmers for their lost revenue
nYY7 TIL that a cement truck crashed near Wingamon, Oklahoma in the 1950s and the mixer was too heavy to move. It’s still there, and locals have painted it to look like an abandoned NASA space capsule.
697wX TIL the first airing of Star Trek was on September 6, 1966 in Canada, two days before the US premiere.
n1Qr TIL that police in Northern Ireland played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm youths attacking a vehicle with bottles… And it worked!