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TIL Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison hired a guy to follow his yacht in a powerboat and retrieve basketballs that go overboard.

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MeQ6V TIL A mosquito's bloodsucking apparatus consists of six needle-like structures. Two that saw through the skin, two hold the tissue apart, one seeks out and suck blood and one excrete a blood thinning substance.
rR58e TIL Unit 731 was a secret Japanese Research site in occupied China during WWII. They used thousands of Prisoners as guinea pigs in horrific experiments to breed and develop biological and chemical weapons. After the war, the US overlooked these atrocities in exchange for their records and results
4XZb6 TIL Mozart was most likely poisoned
PY9JG TIL after an 84 year old man committed suicide, police discovered he'd been living under a false identity (of a dead 8 year old boy) for decades... his co-workers claim he never spoke, and he had no friends
gdO9 TIL that a 1976 episode of the BBC show “Doctor Who” featured The Doctor trapped in a virtual reality dreamworld known as The Matrix, with The Doctor warned if he dies there, he will die in the real world as well.