TIL In 2001, a Yakuza mob boss named Tadamasa Goto gave a $100,000 donation to UCLA. In exchange, they gave him a liver transplant, allowing him to jump the queue. That same year, 186 people in the Los Angeles area died while waiting for a liver transplant. The FBI was also involved. u/gullydon ADMIN MOD • TIL In 2001, a Yakuza mob boss named Tadamasa Goto gave a $100,000 donation to UCLA. In exchange, they gave him a liver transplant, allowing him to jump the queue. That same year, 186 people in the Los Angeles area died while waiting for a liver transplant. The FBI was also involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadamasa_Goto#FBI_scandal
TIL Steve Jobs frequently ate at a restaurant his biological father owned. The owner and Jobs didn’t know they were father and son. u/somepeoplewait ADMIN MOD • TIL Steve Jobs frequently ate at a restaurant his biological father owned. The owner and Jobs didn’t know they were father and son. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-jobs-never-knew-biological-190411719.html#:~:text=Jobs%20frequently%20visited%20a%20restaurant,t%20like%20what%20I%20learned.%22
TIL Anthony Hopkins once looked throughout the whole London for the book "The girl from Petrovka". Unable to find it he headed home, only to find a manuscript off the book on a bench. It later turned out to be the authors copy, which had been in a stolen car and dumped by the theif. u/softishviking ADMIN MOD • TIL Anthony Hopkins once looked throughout the whole London for the book "The girl from Petrovka". Unable to find it he headed home, only to find a manuscript off the book on a bench. It later turned out to be the authors copy, which had been in a stolen car and dumped by the theif. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-anthony-hopkins-became-the-centre-of-the-quantum-theory-of-coincidence/
