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TIL J.K. Rowling was the youngest self-made female billionaire
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TIL before the finish line, a Spanish sportsman running in second place, noticed that the Kenyan running in first place has lost his way, instead of taking advantage of the situation, he guided him all the way to the end and let him win
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TIL that the actor who played Goldfinger was a member of the Nazi party, but it was later learned that he was undercover and helped hide Jews from the Gestapo.
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TIL the California capitol punishment program (death penalty) has spent $4 billion USD to execute 13 people since 1978.
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TIL that the British had a POW camp called Trent park during WWII. They would take axis prisoners of war and let them live in luxury, while secretly bugging the house. The program gave the allies lots of intel, such as the location of a V2 rocket facility.
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TIL Miklós Lászlós play Parfumerie was the basis of the movies The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You Got Mail, and the musical She Loves Me, among other adaptations; all based around two people who hate each other in person but fall in love via correspondence.