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TIL All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

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X0wjX TIL that during the 70s and 80s, dozens of fires were set off deliberately in Hoboken, which displaced thousands of mostly Hispanic residents and killed 56. Investigators suspected that they were started by landlords in arson for profit schemes in order to sell newly renovated apartments to yuppies.
XEdaP TIL William Rankin survived a (40 minute) fall through a thunderstorm cloud. Suffering immediate frostbite and mid-air internal bleeding, while being suspended aloft by updrafts, he watched lightning appear, which he described as blue blades several feet thick, and thunder that he could feel.
j6N9p TIL Tucson is the longest continuously inhabited region in the US stretching back for at least 4,000 years
Qyna TIL Richard Simmons’ career in promoting fitness and healthy living has helped humanity to lose approximately 12,000,000 pounds.
e08o4 TIL Indian women own 11% of the world's gold, over 21,000 tons of it