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TIL Christine Jiaxin Lee spent millions of dollars on handbags and luxury goods after a bank gave her the money by mistake. She obtained $4.6 million and spent the majotity of it.

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MekAK TIL a 32ft 18th century Long Boat was found underneath the World Trade Center during new construction in July 2010
0dJ1M TIL Charles Perrault's Cinderella was originally believed to be a sexual innuendo. The words verre (glass) and vair (fur) sound the same in French, which suggests the Prince "tried on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the land."
Z8R8Y TIL That Victor Harry Feguer, the last person to be put to death in the state of Iowa, requested his last meal consisting of just an unpitted olive. The seed found in his stomach implied that he had hoped for an olive tree to sprout forth at his burial site
yVd4w TIL The Hindenburg, the largest aircraft ever built, was partially constructed out of material salvaged from R101, a British airship that had previously held the same distinction, after it was destroyed in a fatal crash in 1930
yQgJM TIL that Jorge Luis Borges, Blind Argentinean Author, unironically licked a library book once like Terezi Pyrope