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TIL that Garfield was never meant to be funny.

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d8PYQ TIL Instagram star Dan Bilzerian's father Paul was involved in one of the SEC's longest running fraud cases. He spent 25 hiding assets from the US gov. and the SEC finally admitted defeat. Many believe Dan's fortune didn't come from poker, as he claims, but he simply inherited money from his father.
npYd TIL that there will be a helium shortage in 20 years.
aAYJ TIL that in 1901 a doctor named Duncan MacDougall tried to prove the existence of the human soul. To do so he measured the weight of a person at the moment of death. He had 6 patients all of which experienced weight loss with the average loss of weight being 21 grams.
oLBK TIL Marijuana.com was one of the most expensive domain names to purchase. Selling for exactly 4.20 million dollars
6EyW8 TIL That "Learning Styles" such as Auditory, Visual, and Kinesthetic have no real scientific backing.