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TIL Pepsi ran a sweepstakes to win $1 billion in 2003, and paid $10 million for insurance against someone actually winning the grand prize.

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KOleG TIL all human males' paternal ancestor (their father's father's father...) converge on a single man who lived around 200 thousand years ago. The most divergent lineages are found in tribes in Cameroon, suggesting the man lived around there
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Rlg9 TIL the Intense World Theory suggests that Autistic people do not lack empathy/emotion. They shutdown because they are overloaded by emotions due to hypersensitivity and are not able to express empathy/emotion like other people because of that. Essentially, Autistic people feel too much.
oBwGo TIL that the Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo) began in the 1930s to smuggle alcohol into Prohibition-era America. They became primarily involved with drug smuggling in the 1980s
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