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TIL Usain Bolt was defrauded of over $12 million dollars in 2023, which he has yet to recover

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R7No1 TIL The best paid athlete of all time is the Ancient Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His winnings totaled 35,863,120 sesterces, over 15 billion in today’s US dollars.
DX1e TIL There is evidence that many prisoners were abandoned in their cells during Hurricane Katrina, while the guards sought shelter. Hundreds of prisoners were later registered as “unaccounted for.”
yORM TIL there is a 17-year-old girl with a condition that causes rapid breast growth until she stops growing at age 21.
R5kGw TIL there is still thousands of unexploded Japanese balloon bombs in the continental 48 states from WWII.
R5YYa TIL longest U.S. government shutdown lasted 35 days from 12/22/2018 to 1/25/2019