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TIL a study found that people who live very close to recent lottery winners are more likely to go bankrupt due to spending beyond their means because they feel compelled to do so when they see evidence of exorbitant spending around them. The bigger the win, the more likely the neighbors go bankrupt.

lo4JA TIL the Carrington Event was a coronal mass ejection that occurred on August 28, 1859, causing Aurorae for days as far south as Cuba and bright enough to read by, as well as disabling the telegraph systems of North America and Europe.
oBlPY TIL On the Kon Tiki expedition across the Pacific, the 6 men would eat off of whatever came on board. There was a crab in a hole near the steering block that showed no fear, so they let it stay and named it Johannes. Johannes the crab kept the watchman company for the rest of the journey.
awRdJ TIL There was a taboo against cunnilingus in Ancient Rome. A man who performed it on a woman was subject to mockery and there's a number of humorous graffiti about it, with one of them insulting a local candidate for office as "cunt licker"
6EdEQ TIL of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist from Malta who reported on government corruption and money-laundering. She died in a car bomb attack close to her home on 16 October 2017, and her last words were "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."
7rWy7 TIL that the current Pope declared that not only can dogs go to heaven, but all dogs do. WHOSE A GOOD BOY!? All of them, apparently!