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TIL Diamond Jim Brady had over 2 million dollars in jewelry, equivalent to over $73 million today

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R7W0a TIL after his presidency, US Grant lost nearly every cent in a Ponzi scheme. Shortly after, he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Pushing through the pain, and with the help of Mark Twain, Grant penned his autobiography in order to not leave his wife with no financial security.
VBa0 [TIL] Jazz pianist Fats Waller was kidnapped by Al Capone’s thugs and ordered to play for Capone’s birthday. Three days later, he had earned thousands in tips from Capone and his gangsters.
R5Lr9 TIL a Japanese man Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the 2011 earthquake and has not stopped looking for her body for more than 10 years and has dived more than 800 times in the ocean to retrieve her.
WmLL TIL Boris Nemtsov, a former physicist and liberal Russian politician who was instrumental in the introduction of capitalism following the collapse of the USSR, was shot four times in the back and died on a Moscow bridge in 2015.
LQDQ9 TIL a European "Get Some Nuts" Snickers commercial featuring Mr. T using a vehicle-mounted rotary machine gun to shoot Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a "disgrace to the man race" was pulled in 2008 after a group in the U.S. complained that the advertisement was homophobic.