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TIL of the 115 cases reviewed with LexisNexis and newspaper sources, Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, was wrong in twenty-five, and the remaining ninety either have no available details outside of the transcript or the crime is unsolved, leaving no way to confirm Browne’s claims

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9Y6GB TIL Cornelius Cole, a senator from CA, sold his interests in railroad stock which he knew would be worth a fortune. "[Those shares]...largely through my exertions in Congress, worth several millions," he wrote. "Such is the sacrifice of a man in public life . . . but for which he gets no credit."
BgaNy TIL: Uranium was named after Uranus, which had only recently been discovered.
ZndQ TIL a New Jersey billionaire moved to Florida which risked putting New Jersey in a state budget crisis because of the amount of money they were taxing him.
D1pYY TIL during Malcolm X's burglary career, he once played Russian roulette pulling the trigger three times in a row to convince his partners in crime that he wasn't afraid to die. He later revealed to Alex Haley that he palmed the round.
OGL7X TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint