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TIL from 1971 to the 2000s, the MIT Blackjack Team, a team of students and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and other colleges, beat casinos at blackjack worldwide through card counting and other methods

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78gDx TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood
a9VM TIL that His Holiness the Dalai Lama feels that the institution of the Dalai Lama has served its purpose and considers himself to be semi-retired.
BjDy TIL there is a star “Przybylski’s star” with elements that are thought to be impossible to exist in nature in its light spectrum. gadolinium, einsteinium, etc. Many theories say it’s aliens dumping them there as a signal of their existence
9Q7m TIL The Araucana Chicken is also called the “Easter Egg Chicken” because it lays natural blue, green, pink, and brown eggs.
oWmE TIL when Ronald Reagan was giving a speech to a U.S Air Force base in West Berlin, a balloon popped very loudly. Reagan immediately said, “Missed me,” right after the pop.