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TIL about Jerry and Marge Selbee, who were able to win millions from the Michigan and Massachusetts lotteries, due to determining a certain type of game having a positive expected value, when played correctly.

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WKMN TIL Around the 16th century, there was a chamber in the fortress of Biertan (Romania) where all the couples that wanted to divorce were forced to live with only one item of everything: one bed, one spoon, one chair, etc. before breaking up. Only one couple in 300 years ended up divorcing.
x67Ag TIL about New York Yankees pitcher David Wells was observed to be out all night partying until the next morning. Despite being hung over, he pitched a perfect game, retiring all 27 batters he faced, marking the 15th perfect game in Major League Baseball history.
KYJKQ TIL Since dissecting human corpses was a taboo in the greco-roman world, Galens used Macaque Monkeys to study human anatomy, as he thought them to be the most anatomicaly similar to humans out of all the animal species he knew. This led to some errors, as they were less similar than he thought
R5ZQ4 TIL There's different kinds of boobies
5Yayn TIL that sometimes fossils will form with opal instead of stone!