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TIL that Frank Sinatra’s mother, Dolly, enjoyed gambling when she visited her son when he was performing in Las Vegas. Because the casino knew she didn’t like to lose when she played, the staff would rig a slot machine for her so she always won

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TIL that Frank Sinatra’s mother, Dolly, enjoyed gambling when she visited her son when he was performing in Las Vegas. Because the casino knew she didn’t like to lose when she played, the staff would rig a slot machine for her so she always won

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TIL that in 2021, a man went inside a paper-mache Stegosaur statue, got stuck inside a hollow leg, and died there. His body was only noticed when passersby noticed a foul smell from the dinosaur leg. The man had entered the dinosaur trying to retrieve a phone dropped into the dinosaur.

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TIL that Charrúa people were the indigenous people of Uruguay and the surrounding areas. In 1831 the first president of Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera, organized a campaign to eradicate the Charrúas. They are now considered ethnically extinct.

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TIL that Nobel Prize winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang’s father-in-law was Du Yuming, a Kuomintang general who was later captured, re-educated as a war criminal and eventually became a senior official in the PRC.

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