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TIL an economist won the lottery 14 times by calculating when the jackpot got higher than the cost by buying every possible number combination and doing just that.

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XE70P TIL about the Fundamental Attribution Error, a concept that describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us.
L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”
p8AmO TIL the Earth may not be flat but the Solar System is. Aftering seeing a graphic of an asteroid's relative distance to Earth I thought, this must be misleading, as we are not on one plane in space. But we basically are, with margins in single digit degrees.
kV4g TIL that A tablespoon of soil has more living organisms than there are people on Earth right now.
QNxoM TIL the 1900 election divided the American Anti-Imperialist League because while its endorsed candidate, William Jennings Bryan, supported anti-imperialism, he also supported free silver, which alienated supporters of the gold standard within the organization