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TIL Canadian lottery winner Sharon Tirabassi blew through her $10 million winnings in less than 10 years and now lives paycheck to paycheck

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wdM8 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once tried to set the mood by doing a striptease and kissing a record executive on the lips. In reality he was so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table followed by dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s wine.
QJ4pX TIL That Len Bias' death was reported in the media as a crack overdose. Members of the US government used the news to promote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 including the 100:1 ratio of crack sentencing. Len Bias actually died of a cocaine overdose, and there is no evidence of him ever using crack.
6R8Y TIL that Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire
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Wko59 TIL If you stretched the DNA in one cell all the way out, it would be about 2m long and all the DNA in all your cells put together would be about twice the diameter of the Solar System.