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TIL that Eddie Tipton, an information-security director for the lottery, rigged the random number generator system and was able to tell what numbers would be drawn. He won jackpots for many friends and family members over several years and wasn't caught until he bought a lottery ticket worth $16.5m.

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EbLW TIL that the Haka, a traditional war dance of the Maori people of New Zealand has been performed by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team before international games for 111 years
noJY TIL 70% of lotto winners run through their money within 5 years, and it doesn’t matter whether they won $1 million or $100 million
5Ym1n TIL That the Czech language was saved from extinction by puppet shows. In the 17th century, the Catholic Ferdinand II forced the Protestant Czech people to speak in German and banned the Czech language. Puppets were the only remaining entities that had the right to speak Czech in public places.
d8jRd TIL that an AI composed it’s own song called Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears by being “fed hundreds of Eurovision songs into a neuron network”.
J1pxl TIL in 1986 Mark Wahlberg chased after three black kids, throwing rocks at them while shouting "kill the nier, kill the nier!".