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TIL That a Paypal Error Led to The World’s First “Quadrillionaire”

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9YE06 TIL That Portal 2 had plans for a "Morgan Freeman" sphere which was incredibly wise about the 20x20 room in which it had spent a couple of centuries, but upon taking it out of the room it would get its mind blown and would relate everything back to the 20x20 room.
M77Y8 TIL Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, who played the parents on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," were born on the exact same date - June 21, 1947.
GNyg TIL that the Lapp people of Arctic Scandinavia would feed reindeer fly agaric mushrooms, wait for them to pee then drink the reindeer pee for the sole purpose of getting high.
7EmO TIL that Daryl Davis, a black musician, is credited with dismantling the entire KKK network in Maryland. He did this by befriending many members, even going so far as to serve as a pallbearer at a Klansman’s funeral.
yQYnw TIL the day after Hitler killed himself Dr. P. Joseph and Mrs. Goebbels killed themselves and their six children.