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TIL a New Zealand couple disappeared after $6M was accidentally credited in their bank account.

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Q9OL TIL Quaker Oats had a video game divsion in the 80s. They made 14 games in a year, all failures, then shut down.
Z8RWG TIL that Tampa, FL has never reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
dD7QK TIL the Amazon River discharges more water than the next 7 largest rivers in the world combined!
ZlDG TIL Jan 1st 1953 a woman changed her name to Peace Pilgrim “to remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace”. She’d walk until given shelter, fast until given food, without asking, it was given. She died in a car crash in July 1981 from a lift to a speaking engagement
mxKkM TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")