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TIL A former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specializing in statistics has won the lottery FOUR times

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Gg4G TIL that in 1980 a neighbor of John Gotti had the misfortune to kill Gotti’s 12 year old son in a car accident. Before he could move out of the area, he was abducted by several men, then apparently killed and dissolved in acid.
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