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TIL almost 50% of all Americans live in the Eastern Time Zone

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pbeA TIL That The World Championship in Monopoly has been held fourteen times, last time in 2015 and won by italian Nicolò Falcone. The grand prize was $20,580 USD, which is also the amount of money included in a set of Monopoly.
ERpp TIL Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who is worth around $840 million lives in a trailer in Las Vegas with a pet Alpaca
VM7NZ TIL a Norwegian man, addicted to heroin, stole two large oil paintings from a gallery, lost them, was caught and charged with the crime. The artist subsequently met the thief, painted his portrait, and invited the thief to see it — which caused the thief to fall apart weeping.
9GZD TIL that John Paul Jones, “Father of the American Navy,” shipped aboard a slaver early in his life, killed a crewman over a wage dispute, and that Jones was a fake last name to throw off the law afterwards!
OLOL TIL that unlike Susan G Komen when you donate to Huntsman Cancer Institute 100% of the donation goes to cancer research.