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KYkXa TIL after Leo Gao saw that his bank accidentally deposited $10m into his account, he fled New Zealand with his gf & stayed on the run for 2 yrs before being caught. He was paroled after 16 months despite the court assuming that Gao controlled & would have access to the $3.7m that was never recovered
xkWk TIL Dick Cheney flunked out of college twice, was convicted of two DWIs, received two draft deferments and shot a Texas attorney.
jNREv TIL Michigan isn't even in the top 10 of Worst Lead Poisoned States while Pennsylvania and New York are #2 and #1.
mx74p TIL of Littlewood’s Law of Miracles, which defines a miracle as a hugely-improbable, 1-in-a-million event. Assuming there are roughly eight hours per day where humans are alert, and we experience an “event” once per second, on average we should expect to experience a miracle about once per month.
8ewRX TIL that Wolverine was created because Marvel's then editor in chief Roy Thomas wanted a Canadian hero to boost north-of-the-border sales.