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TIL that your chance of winning a Mega Millions lottery is like knowing a hedgehog will sneeze once and only once in the next six years and putting your money down on one particular second and only winning if the one sneeze happens exactly at that second.

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BdNd TIL that there is a “three generations of punishment” sentence in North Korea. This means a person would be sent to the camp along with that person’s entire family and two subsequent generations of family members would be born in prison and live their entire lives there.
7r6rx TIL There is a 20 min uncut interview of Rick James that was used for the famous Charlie Murphy: True Hollywood stories
yQPPM TIL that at some point in 1847, the chief executioner of France informed the government that he was unable to carry out that day’s execution because he’d pawned the guillotine to pay off a debt and lacked the funds to buy it back
16R57 TIL the Kootenai Indian Tribe of Idaho and Montana harvests millions of dollars of sturgeon caviar a year, but put all the eggs back in the rivers. They are desperately try to save the shrinking white sturgeon population which they believe are “sacred messengers.”
EgmVx TIL Albatrosses can glide for thousands of kilometers without flapping wings, using a technique called dynamic soaring. By repeatedly rising into the wind and descending downwind, they gain energy from the vertical wind gradient, allowing them to cover nearly 1,000 km per day with minimal effort