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TIL: Lily Allen turns down 200k in Bitcoins for a gig in 2009.

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5o9n TIL on this day in 1907 a Mexican railroad brakeman named Jesus Garcia saved the entire town of Nacozari, Sonora by singlehandedly driving a damaged and burning train containing dynamite six kilometers away from the town before it finally exploded, killing him
NXpY1 TIL: In the UK they call Rube Goldberg machines "Heath Robinson contraptions"
R7Nw7 TIL that the first non-white person in the NBA was Wataru Misaka a 5’7” Japanese-American point guard. Drafted in 1947, he’s still alive and turns 95 today!
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.
graQA TIL in 2014 a drum of radioactive nuclear waste burst when workers used organic kitty litter to absorb the volatile chemicals. The cleanup cost was estimated to be $600mil+.