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TIL that a customer closed his million-dollar bank account after his bank refused to validate a 50c parking ticket

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78nlZ TIL that the suffix –stan when appended to a country's name means “place of,” or “where one stands” in Persian and Urdu.
Z85Ba TIL In Australia, women who did not volunteer to care for the sick during the 1919/1920 Influenza pandemic were sent white feathers.
mxJOE TIL John Gotti's 13 year old son was struck by a car and killed when he darted out into a street on a mini motorbike. The driver of the vehicle, a neighbor whose son had previously slept over at the Gotti house, disappeared 5 months later. He was allegedly shot in the head and dissolved in acid
4knV6 TIL of the Ovitz family, not only the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded but also the largest family (12 people ranging from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and survive intact
0wjW1 TIL a man convinced more than 7 women to have sex with him by claiming to be a doctor and telling them they had a disease that could only be cured through sex. Some paid him for the sex. The case led to a law making obtaining sex through false info a felony.