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TIL the strategy where a gambler doubles the bet after every loss, so that the first win would recover all previous losses plus win a profit equal to the original stake is called the Martingale System.

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P47E TIL Nikola Tesla was born during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”
JYlek TIL the youngest person to climb to the summit of the 14,180-foot Mount Shasta in California was the seven-year-old Eva Luna Harper-Zahn.
l7XDr TIL that universal peace symbol comes up from merging letters "N" and "D" of the flag semaphore, standing for "nuclear disarmament".
nkvr TIL that researchers at Yale have demonstrated that human babies might naturally have some sense of morality (as opposed to all moral standards existing only thanks to environmental factors).
yQeBV TIL that bridesmaids all wear matching colors because of an old tradition that dictated they not only dress like each other but like the bride herself in order to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.