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TIL Charles Darwin Ate Every Animal He Ever Discovered

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VMnmG TIL of Steve Rothstein, who took advantage of American Airlines' AAirpass (a promotion that offered lifetime unlimited flights for $250k). He accumulated more than 30M miles, costing them $1M per year. He would often book a "companion" just for elbow room, putting the ticket under "Bag Rothstein"
X0Q1P TIL Ed Toutant lost at the $16K question on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' because it was a flawed question. Therefore, he was invited back on & given a second chance, with the jackpot set back at $1.86m as it had been on his first appearance. In his return, he sailed to the end & won that jackpot.
wGW7 TIL Genghis Kahn killed 40 million people during his conquest, enough to cool the planet. He removed 700 million pounds of carbon- roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon global society now produces annually from gasoline.
GJ54 TIL five years into their ten-year plan, editors of the original Oxford English Dictionary had only reached the word ‘ant’
MnRV TIL more Americans identify as Independent than as Democrat or Republican