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TIL that Paris Hilton's Grandfather was so disgusted by her and her sister's antics that instead of leaving his $4.5 B fortune to his 24 heirs, he gave 97% of it to his family charity and instead of getting $181 M each, each heir only received $5.6M. Paris still has $300M from her antics though.

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NXLm8 TIL that Shunsuke Takasugi, actor of Kazuya Oki in Kamen Rider Super-1, was reported to have stolen ¥50 million from fans between 2003 and 2012. After refusing to either return the money or appear in court to answer a lawsuit, Takasugi became a fugitive from justice, disappearing in 2017.
5DDD TIL Frank Sinatra was so pissed off at George Michael for lamenting the “tragedy of fame,” he sent him a letter saying “The tragedy of fame is when no one shows up and you’re singing to the cleaning lady”
1X5r TIL George Carlin went off on his Vegas crowd: “People who go to Las Vegas, you’ve got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling…thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic… fucking people with very limited intellects.”
neV7 TIL on September 6, 1949, a mentally disturbed WWII vet killed 13 of his neighbors and injured 3 more in what is considered the first single-episode mass murder in US history. When he died in 2009, his last words were “I’d have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.”
xV8Ag TIL noble gases on the periodic table are called "noble" because they don't react or generally interact with other elements, like "noble" aristocracy.