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TIL in June 2020, 20-year-old student Alexander Kearns committed suicide after the interface of the trading app Robinhood lead him to believe he owed $730,000, that he didn't, with the note, "How was a 20-year-old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars' worth of leverage?"

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9QGp TIL that a fabled Swedish Lesbian City was reported in Chinese news, causing Swedish tourism websites to crash following millions of hits from China.
4XwQg TIL that in 1964, Elvis Presley bought President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht, USS Potomac (AG-25) for $55,000. He later gave it to St Jude's Children Hospital for a fundraiser, and that hospital sold it for $65,000.
gOPW TIL Wolfram Alpha creator received his PhD on theoretical physics at the age of 20
ZpBp TIL In 1972, when Elvis Presley’s wife Priscilla informed him of her infidelity, Presley “grabbed … and forcefully made love to” her, declaring, “This is how a real man makes love to his woman.”
YpZ9r Til that in 1992, a man named Stefan Mandel won a $27,036,142 jackpot, 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135 minor prizes in ONE lottery, by buying EVERY SINGLE COMBINATION possible - Over 5.5 million tickets. All 44 US states with lotteries have since changed their laws to prevent this.