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TIL Richard Dennis turned $400 into $200 million on the stock market. To prove wrong the people who said his fortune was due to luck, he picked up a group of people off the street with no previous experience and taught them how to trade. In 5 years, they made $175 million using his strategies.

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78OVx TIL in May 1945, the 12th Army Group under the command of Omar Bradley numbered 1.3 million men in 43 divisions, and is the largest group of US soldiers to ever serve under an American field commander.
jNWwa TIL that a during the battle of Gettysburg in 1863 two bullets, a three banded Union bullet and a Confederate two banded bullet collided in mid flight and are on display at the Gettysburg Museum of History.
NXAWE TIL Nine of the ten of the cities with the highest homicide rate per capita are in Mexico
xE55 TIL an Indian flight attendant hid the passports of American passengers on board a hijacked flight to save them from the hijackers. She died while shielding three children from a hail of bullets.
DQAdP TIL that a flock of seagulls and a suitcase full of pepperoni got one man banned from a Fairmont hotel for 17 years