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TIL a women with a PhD in math won the scratch lottery in Texas 4 times (about $21 million) by figuring out the algorithm of the ticket production.

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mKKM TIL of Ning Li, who claimed to discovered antigravity, was hired by the DoD and paid 500k a year, but never heard of again publicly.
W77e8 TIL in 2004 Eric B. & Rakim filed a lawsuit in which they alleged that they weren't paid in full for the use of the masters of their album "Paid in Full".
M7gYa TIL that jazz musicians shut off their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, responsible for self-monitoring performance, and activate their medial prefrontal cortex, which helps with storytelling. This resembles our brain patterns while dreaming.
QJyx6 TIL the dodo bird was not unintelligent but simply evolved docile behavior in response to a lack of predator on its native island of Mauritius. Humans took advantage of this behavior, haunted it to extinction, and then made it a universally recognized symbol of unintelligence.
DwOv TIL the original ending to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ contained Charlie being covered in chocolate becoming a mould, going to Willy Wonka’s house and being given to his son as a present