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TIL Jamsetji Tata topped the list of the world's top philanthropists of the 20th century with an estimated donation of $102 billion adjusted for inflation

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lokrB TIL that during the Great Depression, a prominent attorney flipped $2 (inflation adjusted $31) into $100,000 ($1,500,000). He then proceeded to award the money to the woman who could give birth to the most amount of kids in the following decade.
W89d TIL there’s a zipper truck on the Golden Gate Bridge that shifts the median from one lane to another to increase traffic flow in either direction.
e0eJk TIL: In 1975 a 50 year old bricklayer died laughing whilst watching an episode of the TV show, The Goodies. His widow wrote to the cast of the show to thank them for making her husband's final moments so pleasant.
j6OWQ TIL that two amateur Canadian inventors - medical student Henry Woodward and hotelier Mathew Evans - patented the first electric light bulb in 1874. Unable to secure financial backing, they sold their patent to Thomas Edison, who demonstrated an improved electric light to fanfare five years later.