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TIL the top 10 female billionares all inherited their money through marriage or family relation

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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.
R7kGa TIL One of the methods used for identifying witches in the Salem Witch Trials, was to bake affected girls urine in a cake, feed it to a dog, and the controlling witch would then supposedly cry out in pain.
e01og TIL that the character Marvin The Martian from the Bugs Bunny cartoons wasn't trying to destroy the earth because he hated humans. He was trying to destroy it because it was in the way of his view of Venus.
jNRRE TIL Your body has a protein called PER that determines when your body wakes up, and is the reason why you may wake up X amount of hours before your alarm - to prepare your body for the stress that the alarm causes you.
78abx TIL that the first trademark legislation was passed by the British Parliament under the reign of King Henry III in 1266, which required all bakers to use a distinctive mark for the bread they sold, Bakers’ Marking Law was enacted.