› added 3 weeks ago

3

TIL in 2018 after a man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' auctioneer Dan Dotson, he discovered a safe within it contained $7.5m in cash. When the original owners of the unit found out, they first offered him $600K to return the rest of the loot, but settled on giving him $1.2m.

Read more people.com

via reddit.com

6EwGQ TIL Greek philosopher Chrysippus allegedly died from laughing at one of his own jokes
5jVr TIL: Only 6% of millennials have a credit score considered excellent.
X07vr TIL that an object's "Escape Velocity" (from any body of mass) is the same as the speed at which it would hit the ground if it were dropped from infinity (without external influence)
dVnd TIL Your heart pumps 2000 gallons of blood a day. And all of the blood in your body once every minute.
oBlQA TIL Finland is the only country in the world with regulated 10-month emergency supply of critical medical equipment, medicine, energy and more