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Til the word “dude” first appeared in the 19th century to describe young men who were way too engrossed in the task of being fashionable

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b9Wx7 TIL that, in 2013, PayPal accidentally paid $92,233,720,368,547,800 - 92 quadrillion dollars - into a Pennsylvanian man's account. His account was quickly returned to its initial amount of $0.
gxNb TIL that after Bob Dylan offered The Beatles marijuana when he first met them in 1964 he was shocked to find out they weren’t regular smokers. Dylan had misheard the lyric ‘I can’t hide’ from 'I Want To Hold Your Hand’ as 'I get high’.
NXGj8 TIL In 2017, six Chinese officials were punished for falling asleep in a meeting about how to motivate lazy bureaucrats.
DbWD TIL that even though the fantastic beast movie was set in New York the filming production never left the UK.
JMlV TIL that one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims managed to temporarily escape. He was found naked, drugged and bleeding from his rectum on a street corner. Dahmer convinced police that the boy was his boyfriend and that they had had an argument. The boy was returned to Dhamer and was murdered that night.