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TIL 80% of the lottery winners file for bankruptcy within five years.

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E1Lmx TIL CDs still account for 70% of music sales in Japan as of 2020.
vov7 TIL in 1998, Wu Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car crash from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. He and a friend coordinated onlookers and lifted one of the cars to rescue a four year old girl, whom ODB visited in hospital under a fake name
grj8A TIL that sheriffs in Louisiana also collect taxes, among other duties besides law enforcement. They are so powerful that when dropping out of the gubernatorial race in 1995, sheriff Harry Lee said "Why would I want to be governor when I can be king?"
16WJX TIL people older than 75 years who have cognitive abilities as good as someone in their 20s and 30s are called superagers. A lot of their superaging comes from life-long exercise, connection with nature, and life-long mental activities. Robert De Niro, Rusin Bond, and Dadi Bhagwani have superaged.
vPaA4 Til In 1181, Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in their night sky. It is one of the earliest descriptions consistent with a supernova