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TIL - Apparently, Crows Love Luxurious Ant Baths. This Is What It Looks Like

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g6WA TIL the US government seized $80 mil worth of gold coins in 2011 that a Pennsylvania middle class family found in their grandfather’s safe deposit box. The coins pre-dated the Great Depression and an order by then President Roosevelt that all gold was to be seized by the government.
xVxZg TIL that the Wizard of Oz is just the first of a series of 14 books by l. Frank Baum.
l7MO1 TIL that in every U.S. state, whoever presses the button on the slot machine wins the wager, which is why in 2017, a man who had his female friend push the slot machine button for good luck did not win anything but she won $100,000.
W7QNA TIL that there were 26 families of passengers on the Mayflower that are known to have left descendants; it is estimated that over 30 million people can trace their ancestry back to those 26 families on the Mayflower.
eWrE TIL The Dilbert principle describes how Companies systematically promote their least-competent employees to management, in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing.