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TIL The reason Floyd Mayweather gets paid so much is because he bet on himself by buying out his contract for $750,000 in 2006.

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NXjEJ TIL in 2003 £4 million of stolen artwork from the Whitworth Art Gallery (by Picasso, Gauguin & Van Gogh) was recovered in a cardboard tube next to a public toilet after an anonymous tip-off. Also in the tube was a note that read "the intention was not to steal. only to highlight the woeful security"
ZpW04 TIL the World's Oldest Company, Kongō Gumi, Operated Continuously for 1,400+ Years, Building Temples Since 578 AD in Japan.
R1k8 TIL bubbles from a bubble bath thermally insulate the surface of the water, keeping the bath warm for a longer period of time.
ANYa7 TIL: Alfonso XII, King of Spain during the first Restoration, had his legitimacy questioned as his mother's consort was rumored to be homosexual; the real father was likely a palace guard commander. Alfonso didn't live to see the birth of his heir.
oBJaA TIL that the Mexican government once opened fire on peaceful protestors. An estimated 300-400 civilians laid dead in the streets. In 2000, official government documents were released that showed the government employed snipers dressed as protestors to provoke the officers into shooting.