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TIL an entire village in Spain bought tickets in a national lottery. When they won, each villager received at least 100K$, except one man who didn’t buy a ticket.

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NAXM TIL Roald Dahl, author of “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”.
nlrb TIL: A 2700 year old bag of weed was found in a grave.
MQYm TIL cats domesticated themselves.
6RgJ TIL After winning a romp with two hookers in the “Get Your Grandpa Laid” contest on the Howard Stern show, winner Johnny Oris died choking on a steak as he hurried his dinner on his way to have threesome
BrwEW TIL Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff