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TIL that there are more slaves globally right now than there ever has been in history - 50 million

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567r TIL that legendary gambler Phil Ivey won over $9 million dollars playing baccarat with the help of a woman named Chen Yin Sun. Sun spent hundreds of hours memorizing flaws in the patterns on the back of the playing cards–aberrations along margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch.
9wrA7 TIL about Mama Kannon Temple in Japan, which is dedicated to motherhood and is commonly known as the "breast temple." The temple addresses breast related problems such as cancer and breastfeeding difficulties.
WkOOo TIL I learned in 1963 someone in east Berlin escaped to west Berlin by stealing a tank and driving it through the Berlin wall
78L5p TIL that In the witches scene in MacBeth where they describe a potion needing "eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog" they're really referring to common plants. Respectively: mustard seed, buttercup, holly leaves, and hounds tongue.
lOD1 TIL that to reach the rank of Grand Master of Memory you have to memorize 1,000 random digits in an hour, the order of 10 shuffled decks of cards in an hour, and the order of one shuffled deck of cards in under 2 minutes.