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TIL that from 1995-2001 one man cheated the McDonalds Monopoly game and walked away with $20 million.

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VM188 TIL Mexican President Francisco Madero has the distinction of being the first head of state in the world to ever fly in an airplane, which he did with the Wright Brothers in North Carolina on November 30, 1911.
mKnY TIL when American troops were asking ‘American’ trivial questions to flush out German infiltrators in WWII, that American brigadier general Bruce Clarke was held at gunpoint for five hours after he said the Chicago Cubs were in the American League
WkmR4 TIL Steve Buscemi was stabbed multiple times breaking up a knife fight involving Vince Vaughn and Scott Rosenberg
LkMpm TIL that Jurassic Park's visual effects were so groundbreaking to filmmakers that it inspired Peter Jackson to begin work on Lord of the Rings, George Lucas to start on the Star Wars prequels, and Stanley Kubrick to invest in his pet project, A.I (Artificial Intelligence).
rRRvw It would burn a hole through you—and then some.