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TIL a waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then she was kidnapped by her ex husband, and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS.

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7An7 TIL Goldman Sachs horde 25% of the World’s Aluminium then manipulate the price by delaying delivery to companies by 16 months, increasing the price of it, making them a lot of money and potentially costing consumers $5 Billion over 3 years.
X0jOQ TIL Bert Janssen from the Netherlands is the longest-living heart transplant recipient in the world since 1984. The operation was done by Egyptian-born transplant pioneer Magdi Yacoub, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 for his services to medicine.
epp04 TIL of the post WWII "Return of the Dead" program, in which the bodies of 171,000 fallen US servicemen were returned to the United States, and another 110,000 were reburied in 14 new military cemeteries overseas, according to family wishes. The program cost $164 million, about $1.8 billion today.
dDLx7 TIL in 2007 Trey Parker & Matt Stone, creators of South Park, negotiated an ad-sharing deal with Comedy Central that gave the creators a 50-50 split on all digital revenue. Those digital rights helped them reportedly sign a $935 million, six-year deal in 2021; one of the biggest deals in TV history.
x55w TIL that a German man named Walter Kellner won a writing competition describing an amazing emergency landing in Sardinia based on a true story. An Australian man, also named Walter Kellner, tried to sue him for stealing his own story. Turns out both stories were coincidentally true.