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TIL A Chicago couple won $30 million in the state lottery and didn’t tell anyone. Not even their kids.

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gy77 TIL that according to “Solomon Cuve”(also called the “Crash Risk Curve”) drivers traveling 5 mph (8 km/h) above the average speed of traffic are statistically the least likely to be involved in a crash while crash risk increases dramatically when traveling below the average speed.
v1ZVK TIL the Keyboard Cat meme video, though uploaded to youtube in 2007, was actually recorded in 1984
oB4aK TIL Benjamin Franklin left the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $2,000 in his will, but they couldn't draw the full balance for 200 years. In 1990, the cities received $6.5 million.
oByLW TIL the inspiration for Macintosh computers came from 1970's Xerox technology
R77Pw TIL Craig Gillespie, director of the upcoming Tonya Harding biopic "I, Tonya" also directed a Campbell's Soup commercial from the early 1990s starring Nancy Kerrigan