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TIL in November 2022 Edwin Castro of California won a world-record $2.05b in the state’s Mega Millions, the largest ever for a national lottery. The ticket cost $2.

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vPYDL TIL : Australia is wider than the moon. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.
OGGm7 TIL that roughly 99% of the world's population will be in daylight on July 8th at 7:15am ET. About 6.4 billion people will be in daytime while 1.2 billion will be in twilight.
VMXep TIL at age 18, Bruce Lee was sent to live with his sister in the US because he had beaten up the son of an organized crime family; Lee's parents feared retaliation
4kgeR TIL after fathers drown at sea, people in the fishing village Skinningrove, England, have a ritual to take the sons out to ensure they don’t get fearful of it.
ea6n TIL the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is “gorilla gorilla gorilla”