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TIL Eminem Threw Out 69,000 Pieces of Paper During Writing of ‘Revival’

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Y7kYr TIL The UK has a savings account that is also a lottery. Instead of receiving interest, you are in with a chance to win up to £1M every month. You can withdraw all your money at any time. Other countries have tried it but their official lottery got them banned because of their own greed.
6ED1Z TIL In 1964, Sports Illustrated debuted its first Swimsuit Issue. Babette March's white bikini caused a sensation. Sports Illustrated readers wrote in to the magazine with date offers and marriage proposals to the model
6V98 TIL In 1991 an experiment was carried out involving 5,000 people and one game of Pong, which demonstrated the potential power of the hive mind.
KOGDw TIL “Our local group alone is 10 million light-years in diameter, containing the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, along with about 50 dwarf galaxies, but that only accounts for 0.00000000001 percent of the observable universe.”
dDVBd TIL that not only can octopi change their color to match their surroundings, but they can also change the actual texture of their skin as well by controlling the size of projections on their skin (called papillae), creating textures ranging from small bumps to tall spikes.