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TIL a Twitch troll donated $50K from his parents CCs and planned to charge it back once the streamers had spent it. Paypal then declined to issue charge backs.

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KAaJ TIL that the CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was called “Operation Castration”
BgdWD TIL In The 1930s, Baseball rivaled Soccer In England, attracting 10,000 spectators per game. In 1938, at the inaugural Baseball World Cup, Great Britain defeated the USA 4 games to 1. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the sports ascendancy, and it never recovered its prewar popularity.
6ENDw TIL the Inuit were colonizers from Siberia that by 1300 AD had completely annihilated the native Dorset tribes.
1aJgP TIL Robert Opel streaked 1974 Oscars, then ran for president with the slogan “Not Just Another Crooked Dick” in 1976, and then was suspiciously murdered at his gay art studio in 1979.
R5mL8 TIL that the ship used by scientology as a first headquarter was sunk by a train in 1980