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TIL Scratching your ankle feels as good as sex. Scientists have discovered the ankle is the most satisfying spot to scratch.

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D1aVY TIL: Warren Buffett won a $1 million dollar bet against a hedge fund, he bet that a simple index fund (S&P 500) would outperform a collection of hedge funds over the course of 10 years. He donated the money to charity.
gMevb TIL the board game Stratego was invented by a Dutch Jew for his two children during WW2. The family was eventually sent to a concentration camp but luckily survived.
JY4r1 TIL about Rita Wolfensohn who was legally blind, a hoarder and had presumably lived alone believing her adult son Louis had moved out. Rita didn’t know her son Louis was “living” with her for the past 20 years, however he was dead that entire time.
egQ5 TIL ‘It’s always sunny’ was only given $200 for their original pilot episode
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