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TIL that “Tuvalu is sinking” is the local catch-all phrase used in the small island archipelago due to the changing environment

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b9DGZ TIL of Long-Term Capital Management, that was worth $1.25 trillion and took 14 banks to bail out 1998
LkL7Q TIL Mötley Crüe Front man, Vince Neil killed friend and fellow musician Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and caused brain injury to two other people while driving drunk in 1985. Because, in Neil's own words, "that's the power of cash".
YpYxG TIL that during the UK general election of 1880, a well-presented book about one of the candidates was widely circulated, named "Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith". Spoiler alert, it contained 32 empty pages.
Brrgx TIL that a janitor from Chicago wrote over six years a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript with over 300 watercolor illustrations called “In the Realms of the Unreal”, which was only discovered after his death.
Pnae TIL a prisoner impregnated 4 guards and made $15k+ monthly while incarcerated