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TIL Joan Ginther won millions four times from Scratch off tickets. Last prize….10 million.

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xNQk TIL Patagonia is the only company in the outdoor industry to ethically source their down, auditing the entire process from egg to adult goose
E1emP TIL Actress Catherino O'hara (Schitt's Creek) has Situs Inversus, a rare congenital condition in which all of a person's internal organs in the thorax and abdomen are positioned on the opposite side to where they should be.
6EX6W TIL that Comcast (NBC Universal) owns 70% of Rotten Tomatoes and Warner Bros the remaining 30%
VBVLp TIL that a polar bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill 52 adults! Ito cells are cells in the liver that store Vitamin A (Lipid soluble). High Vitamin A production in marine algae at the bottom of the food chain results in polar bear livers with enough Vitamin A to last a human 143 years!
QlXk TIL: Unclaimed dead in NYC are buried in a mass grave on an island run by the Dept. of Corrections and staffed by convicts; Over 50,000 bodies are buried there and the press isn’t allowed to enter.