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TIL that the town of Boring, Oregon's sister city is Dull, Scotland. "Dull has helped put Boring on our map," says OR state representative, Bill Kennemer. "People are starting to hear about Boring and they come and stop." The town is now developing a relationship with the Australian town of Bland.

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rRmve TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She won a total of $17million, and has since moved to Las Vegas.
b9QL4 TIL The shape of Colorado looks like a rectangle with four sides but it infact has 697 sides and is called a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
pLB8 TIL that the creator of mothers day spent the rest of her life trying to end it’s celebration and died without children in 1948
gM9mX TIL that billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones was the subject of a 1987 PBS documentary called "Trader" and wants to hide it from the public so much that he buys every copy that becomes available and tries to block it from being aired on the internet
5QKR TIL The Departed is the movie with the most uses of the word “fuck” and its derivatives (237) to win the Best Picture Oscar.