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TIL Billionaire from Pakistan, Owner of Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C spent his first night in a $2/night room at the University Y-YMCA, and his first job was washing dishes for $1.20 an hour.

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gr6nX TIL The bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) converted only about 0.7 grams of mass to energy. This is roughly 1/3 the mass of a dime.
l7LR5 TIL in 1912, a man found the skull of a prehistoric "missing link" in the human evolutionary chain. In 1953, it was discovered that the skull was that of a medieval human with an orangutan jaw and fossilized chimpanzee teeth. "The Piltdown Man" become the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever.
WkxoL TIL John Colter (member of Lewis and Clark expedition) Was captured and forced to sprint for his life by a group of Blackfeet Indians for 6 miles before killing 1 Indian, hiding in a beaver dam, and walking to a fort for 11 days (all while naked.)
6D08 TIL that a woman with no criminal history spent a month in jail after cops found what they thought was a spoon with meth residue. She was released after tests confirmed the “meth residue” was spaghetti sauce.