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TIL that author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn) were next door neighbors.

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bON9 TIL that Chef Gordon Ramsay originally aspired to be a professional soccer player, but then suffered a knee injury that he never fully recovered from. He then decided to follow his already growing interest in culinary education so he wouldn’t be known as “the football player with the gammy knee”.
xV86B TIL that average millionaire went bankrupt at least 3.5 times
LoQ0 TIL that men are more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime comitted by strangers
7y8L TIL of a Chinese traffic jam that lasted 10 days, with some individual drivers taking up to 5 days to get out. This took so long that a small micro economy developed on the highway
GxaN TIL: Since 1968 a man with a rake would wake up early every day and hurriedly collect $1,000 from the Trevi Fountain in Rome, he was only caught in 2002.