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TIL of a statistician who discovered the outside of a particular scratch-off lottery game was non random. He could correctly predict a winning ticket 90% of the time.

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OByR TIL that a Texas Billionaire built a disposal site for radioactive waste over one of the largest reservoirs of fresh water in the south-west of the United States.
lEYG TIL that if you donate your kidney without specifying a recipient, you can start a domino donation chain getting thousands of people new matching kidneys.
XEoB6 TIL John Hathorne was the only judge in the Salem Witch Trials never to apologize for his actions. His great-great grandson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, added a W to his last name to distance himself from him.
YbPx TIL the guy who wrote “The Internet Is For Porn” is the same guy who composed the songs for Frozen.
adEN TIL Marilyn Monroe quoted as saying “There is nothing positive about being fat, and there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are, and if we don’t, who will? - I was never fat a day in my life and I never will be”