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TIL that Paris Hilton cost her family billions ($4.3 billion to be exact) because her grandfather decided to donate most of their money to charity because he was embarrassed at what she had done to the family name.

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ANmXx TIL that the phrase immaculate conception does not refer to Jesus but his mother Mary who Catholics believe was also born free of original sin.
jNbYR TIL: "Backpack nukes" weren't spy novel fiction. A veteran trained in the 60s to use one-person-portable nuclear weapons said “We all knew it was a one-way mission, a suicide mission,” since one couldn't get away in time and also such bombs weren't expected to be left unguarded before exploding.
XNM8 TIL the Royal Canadian Mint created a giant, million-dollar coin from nearly pure gold. It was stolen from a museum in Berlin in March, when the market price of the gold was nearly 4 times the coin’s face value.
p8Dk8 TIL that Bassian thrush birds use farting as a way of disturbing their prey into moving so they can spot and catch them
e0wvk TIL when Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, people did not buy them because they were very inexpensive and there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product.