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TIL that in the UK, The National Lottery hunts for winners of unclaimed Lottery prizes, but in the U.S. they let it expire after one year without putting in effort to search for the winner.

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4kLw5 TIL that Ferdie Pacheco was both Muhammad Ali’s doctor and his cornerman. In 1977, Pacheco noted that Ali got poor results in a series of physical reflex tests and advised him to retire from boxing. When Ali ignored this, Pacheco quit Ali’s team, no longer feeling confident with Ali’s condition.
GAZ7 TIL: that when the author of Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) did the recording for the audio book, it took him 17 takes to record the passage about her death because each time he would cry or his voice would crack.
ANOe7 TIL about Miracle Village, a community for registered sex offenders in Palm Beach, Florida.
v1XWD TIL Ella Fitzgerald forgot a lyrics of the song she’s singing, but won a Grammy for her performance of improvising.
QJjv6 TIL Mae Jemison, the first woman of colour to go into space, suffered from a fear of heights before embarking on the astronaut training that eventually led her to the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992