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TIL that Mike Tyson went bankrupt in 2003. Despite having earned $400 million from boxing, examples of reckless spending included $6.3 million on luxury cars and $580K on his 30th birthday party. He has improved his financial situation and now receives $900K/month from his cannabis company, however.

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EJjw TIL Engineers are three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies.
5Y94B TIL "Macho Man" Randy Savage's first wrestling character was called "The Spider", based off of Spider-Man. He would later star as the villian wrestler "Bone Saw" in The Amazing Spiderman movie.
7re7O TIL that airplanes will perform a "fuel dump" if they need to land earlier than expected. This is because airplanes can take off with more weight than they can land with, and the fuel makes of 80% of the aircraft's weight at takeoff.
R5K8w TIL that some dustpans have ridges on the edge so that you can get stuck stuff off the brush
AN7g TIL that the last place to rejoin the Union after the American Civil War was a small town in upstate New York. In 1861, the town voted 80-45 to secede, but was not included in Reconstruction and didn’t vote to rejoin the Union until 1946.