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TIL: Belarusians are the Heaviest Drinkers in the World

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LNmm TIL that Sean Bean, while filming Lord of the Rings, hated flying so much that, instead of going by helicopter, he sometimes opted to travel miles uphill in full Boromir gear
GYJbG TIL of MLB player Lenny Dykstra who paid a team of private investigators $500,000 to dig up dirt on MLB umpires. He used the information to leverage a more favorable strike zone during games.
PYpPw TIL: Marion Tinsley, of Ironton, Ohio, is considered one of the greatest checkers players to ever live. He lost only 7 games in his 45-year career, 2 of them to a computer. During one game against the Chinook program, he saw a mistake the computer made and predicted a win 64 moves into the future.
8avY8 TIL in 2015, Forbes named entrepreneur/CEO Elizabeth Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Then in 2016, allegations of fraud collapsed her company's valuation, rendering her stock worthless and reducing her net worth to zero.
5bvB TIL the “town” of Monowi, Nebraska has a population of 1. Elsie Eiler, in her capacity as Mayor, grants herself a liquor license and pays taxes to herself.