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TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.

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X0E16 TIL The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels
d6mj TIL that if you clap your hands in front of Chichen Itza’s El Castillo pyramid, the echo will sound like a chirping bird
Y7VGB TIL that sugar isn’t directly bad for your teeth, but rather it creates the perfect environment for bacteria in your mouth to thrive, and they produce acid as a byproduct which IS bad for your teeth.
DQ56p TIL the Largest Train Robbery in U.S. History occurred in Suburban Chicago in 1924. During "The Rondout Train Robbery" in Lake County, IL over $2 Million Dollars ($35 Million in 2023) was stolen from a Mail Train's Clerks by the Newton Boys and their accomplices, which included a Postal Inspector.
WkRKX TIL Walt Disney had a neat little private apartment above the fire house off the Town Square in Disneyland complete with with a 2nd floor terrace. Even today there is always a lamp burning in the window above the old firehouse