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TIL Einstein’s Brain went missing and was found 23 years later

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GYpej TIL After a waitress helped a customer choose the winning numbers for a lottery ticket in 1984, he tipped her $3,000,000, half of his $6,000,000 prize money.
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Qpoe TIL: Four out of six Marlboro Men died died of smoking-related diseases, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname “Cowboy killers”
gMd1X TIL after Marvin Gaye recorded “What’s Going On”, he played it for Motown’s Berry Gordy Jr. who said it was “the worst thing I heard in my life.” Only after Gaye threatened to leave the label was it released, becoming massive hit and considered 4th greatest song of all time by the Rolling Stone.
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