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TIL: "This is fine" might soon become a LEGO set

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YpKXW Till soccer superstar David Beckham purchased insurance policy $195 million on his feet, his legs, and ten toes becoming the most expensive personal insurance policy in sports history.
grgW TIL that after finding his wife was cheating on him, Peter the Great of Russia beheaded Willem Mons, put his head in a jar, and made his wife spend time with it every day.
KOZvJ TIL that the HEPA filter was conceived during WWII to guard soldiers and scientists, especially those working on the Manhattan Project, from radioactive particles.
mxgmM TIL that former US Senator Harry Reid informed the FBI of an attempted bribe during his time as head of the Nevada Gaming Commission. He participated in the sting that implicated the would be briber and soon after, his wife found a bomb attached to her car.
b9Jwa TIL Wheeling Gaunt, a slave who bought his and his family's freedom in 1845 before moving to Yellow Springs, OH. At the time of his death, he bequeathed a large portion of his land and estate to the village under the condition that each widow be given flour annually, which continues to this day