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TIL in 1984 an contestant made it onto the game show Press Your Luck. He discovered using his stop-motion VCR that the presumed random patterns of the game board were not random and memorized the sequences. On the game he was on, he won 45 consecutive spins. winning $110,237 in cash & prizes.

69QpW TIL that actor James Mason's son is married to Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's.
OXX1 TIL that the Australian Mint produced a “Han Solo in carbonite” 1 oz. silver coin.
AD6R4 TIL Queen Elizabeth II likes her steak well-done and dislikes garlic
JYjwj TIL you are more likely to be hit by lightning than become a billionaire
mwbR TIL The world will run out of Helium possibly within 25-30yrs, which would be disastrous to the Medical Industry just to start.