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TIL Norovirus, the most common gastrointestinal illness, is not killed by alcohol-based hand sanitizers

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gMW5X TIL of the "World's Littlest Skyscraper" scam committed on Wichita Falls, Texas. The designer said the building would be 480 in height. Investors assumed it was 480 feet not 480 inches and soon realized they invested $200,000 in a 4 storey building. They lost in court and the builder kept the money.
DLVg TIL that a woman driving to a Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a motorcyclist with a flat tire, who turned out to be Dave Matthews. She and her boyfriend got front row seats, backstage passes, and Matthews took them to dinner afterwords.
8erZL TIL two friends named Thomas Cook & Joseph Feeney shook hands in 1992 and promised that if one of them ever won the Powerball jackpot, he would split the winnings with the other. In 2020, Cook upheld their 28-yr-old agreement after he won $22m. They both chose the cash option & took home $5.7m each.
ly4G TIL in 1974 ,Pharoh Rameses II’s mummy was issued an Egyptian passport and was received in France with full military honors befitting a king.
KORJR TIL: In 2019 A Well Preserved Pleistocene Wolf Head and a Frozen Cave Lion Cub were Found by a Team in Siberia