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TIL That the iconic theme from ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy’ was an Eagles track

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myvY TIL in 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with two suitcases: one containing $777,000 in cash, the other empty. He placed the full amount on a single bet of dice which he won and packed the winnings in the empty suitcase
oRVp8 TIL George Foreman won an Olympic Gold Medal after boxing for only a year and a half and with only 20 amateur fights
rR6M TIL that Judit Polgar, a female chess player who defeated Kasparov, Karpov, and Spassky, was part of an experiment by her father to prove (chess) genius is made, not born.
epy7n TIL the first African American woman to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel in 1939, wasn't even able to attend the premiere of the movie she preformed in due to it being held at a whites-only theater.
PYkVZ TIL that YT creators didn't think a video can be watched more than 2 billion times so INT_MAX was used (maximum 2,147,483,647). Because of Gangnam style they had to change it since adding one more view to 2,147,483,647 would result in -2,147,483,648