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TIL a 1984 contestant on the game show “Press My Luck” used his stop-motion VCR to memorize the patterns used on the game board. He won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show.

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QnY9 TIL shortly before the great exodus from Digg, the company laid off 37% of its staff and installed an interim CEO.

a8G9b TIL that in 2012, a crucified Jesus statue in India started dripping water from it's feet. Hundreds of believers flocked to the dripping cross, collecting and consuming the “holy” water. It was later revealed that the source of the water was a clogged toilet from a nearby washroom.

LkQl0 TIL Microsoft has a team keeping billion of devices with correct time. They call themselves 'Time Lords'.

R7aE9 TIL that 1 out of every 160 New Zealanders was part of the production of The Lord of the Rings films.

LknKm TIL Juno Beach was originally going to named Jelly Beach, but Churchill disapproved of the name, finding it to be undignified "for a beach on which so many men might die".