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TIL the most valuable heist in Canadian history involved 3000 tons of maple syrup worth $18.7 million

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KVWR TIL Jimmy Doyle was pushing himself to fight so he could buy his mother a house, and when Sugar Ray Robinson killed him in the ring, he donated his earnings from the next 4 fights to Doyles mother so she could buy that house.
j6Ara TIL of Roger Marie Bricoux, one of the musicians on the Titanic. All band members died on the ship; however, he wasn't declared dead until 2000, and the French army considered him a deserter in World War I.
l7J9r TIL: the same man invented the Clean Room (CalTech), discovered the true age of the earth (4.5 billion), AND almost single-handedly got lead out of our gasoline and envirnoment. HERO: Clair Cameron Patterson
KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.
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