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TIL: Lego illegally copied the iconic brick designs of Hilary Page whom committed suicide due to lack of sales for his Self-Locking Building Bricks prior to realizing his designs were even being copied.

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4XeEg TIL the largest family to perish on the Titanic was the Sage family of Peterborough, England. Mr and Mrs Sage and their nine children all died in the sinking. Only the body of their 13-year-old son was recovered.
Q9W6 TIL 22 years ago this week a Stardust Casino employee walked out of the hotel with $500,000 and was never seen again.
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wLe0o TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
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