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TIL that AMC Theatres is owned by the richest man in China

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j6XZj TIL that Philip Gale was a child prodigy who killed himself at age 19 by jumping from a classroom window. Before he did it, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, " Phil was here. "
vRd4 TIL Australia has the highest rate of gambling in the world, mostly wagering on poker and slot machines.
jNvGa TIL that the late Astros player Bob Watson scored the MLB’s 1,000,000th run. The run was sponsored by Tootsie, so Watson was awarded 1,000,000 Tootsie Rolls for his achievement
awerL TIL that years before Peary reached the North Pole, he kidnapped a native child and stole one of the world's largest iron meteorites from the Inuit in Greenland, delivering both to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
xVY65 TIL Consumer Reports was blacklisted by McCarthy from 1945-1954 as a Communist organization for reporting on serious life-threatening product flaws and advocating for fair treatment of workers