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TIL the first text message was “Merry Christmas!”

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4kbgR TIL the British Columbia Lottery Corp. was ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamblers whose jackpots were withheld because they had won them after volunteering to ban themselves from casinos. The ruling only covered a 14 month period due to a change in law in 2010.
9YWnr TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS church, and his brother Hyrum were shot to death by an angry mob while in prison in Carthage, Illinois. After being shot in the face, Hyrum exclaimed “I’m a dead man, Joseph!” Then Joseph was shot while trying to escape out of a second story window.
oRy7W TIL actress Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully from the X-Files) grew up in London, and after the X-Files concluded she moved back to London 22 years ago. She doesn't consider herself to be either Biritish or American.
4XZD6 TIL that the movie 'Salt of the Earth' which is based in a true story of a 15 month-long strike and it was blacklisted by Hollywood because the writer, the director and the producer were alleged members of the Communist party and the actress Rosaura Revueltas was deported for being in this movie,
PZPn TIL in July 2015, a boat fell victim to waves on Lake Havasu, Arizona, filled with water, and sank to the bottom. When the Search and Rescue team responded to recover the boat an hour later, they discovered a stowaway cat that was still alive inside the sunken-boat.