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TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.
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TIL Tiger Woods, despite being worth $500 million dollars, once pulled a “mulligan” by taking back a $5 tip to a waitress after realizing he had tipped her earlier in the day. By the way, he was playing a $10,000 hand of blackjack at the time.
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TIL that the world's oldest postcard called "Penny Penates" was intended as a practical joke on post office clerks.
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TIL that while prohibition agent Izzy Einstein made nearly 5,000 arrests in a variety of disguises, on 20 occasions he showed his ID to the bouncer who let him in thinking it was fake.
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TIL that in US food labeling, the term "natural" essentially means nothing and does not ensure that the product is unprocessed or all natural in any way.
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TIL that US Presidential candidates get intelligence briefings. Harry Truman began this practice in 1952 as a reaction to his own experience at the beginning of his Presidency - he knew next to nothing about the U.S.’s intelligence apparatus, including the Manhattan Project.