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TIL that Las Vegas is a long way from being the gambling capital of the world - Macau’s gambling revenue is a whopping 5 times larger

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yQlRw TIL In 1891, Tesla made a risky Demonstration to discredit Edison company's claims on Safety of AC.During the Demo, For a moment, 250,000 volts raced across the surface of his body , causing him to be surrounded by what one newspaper called “the Effulgent Glory of Myriad Tongues of Electric Flame.”
b9vRa TIL that the reason men don't button the second button on their suit is because of an old king who was too fat to button it.
J1wYQ TIL: That in the 1700's, getting called a 'Beard-Splitter' meant that you had sex with a lot of women.
69AX8 TIL Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money was one of the first people to cover the Ted Bundy murders.
d8v0B TIL on 1816, after the French frigate ran aground the coast of Mauritania, 150 passengers and sailors went on a raft. They were found 15 days later, only 15 survived, the rest dying from drowning, hunger and violence from other survivors. Most had to eat human flesh to survive