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TIL The inventor of Microsoft Office paid ~$30 Million for a space trip to visit the ISS…twice

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YpBPv TIL Stevie Nicks wrote Stand Back while listening to Prince’s Little Red Corvette. Because Stevie wrote Stand Back using the exact music for Little Red Corvette, she called Prince to tell him about the song, and he showed up at her studio 25 minutes later to record the synthesizers for it.
x6P9b TIL: Fish can cough through their gills
NXVe1 TIL That aircraft have swept back wings to delay supersonic airflow which helps prevent wave drag. But they are not ideal for slow air speeds.
YDjx TIL Microsoft once threatened to sue a high school student named Mike Rowe for creating a website called MikeRoweSoft.com
xoAg TIL Oscar the cat, a stray taken in by a Rhode Island nursing home, seems to only visit patients shortly before death. He is so accurate in predicting peoples death, that their families are notified as soon as he gets cozy to a patient.