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TIL Rob Walton (son of Walmart founder Sam Walton) crashed a 1 of 6 Shelby Daytona Coupe worth more than $14 million.

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R7KV8 TIL The wrestling mask was first introduced at a World's Fair in 1865 by Theobaud Bauer, who appeared as The Masked Wrestler. It started being a regular thing in 1915 when Mort Henderson wrestled as Masked Marvel.
GBd4 TIL of Williams syndrome, a rare genetic condition characterized by a distinctive cheerful and endearing personality, heightened social skills and friendliness, but poor visuo-spatial ability and heart problems.
E1LLo TIL of the exercise of 'death cleaning' - a Swedish concept where elderly people deliberately clear out and declutter their possessions so that nobody else has to do it once they're dead
m6lR TIL Valve worked with the FBI to set a trap for the German hacker who stole the Half-life 2 source code, offering him a fake job. He was “saved” when German police arrested him instead, only serving 2 years probation
41d6 TIL there was a plot to kill the Vice President and Secretary of State concurrently with the Lincoln assassination. The Secretary of State was stabbed in the face but lived, and the assailant who was to kill the Vice President got drunk instead.