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TIL That Lawrence Livermore Labs his the highest concentration of Phd's @ 1100 per square mile.

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nW9wr TIL Isaac Newton invested in the “South Sea Company” which profited from the sale of some British goods and, more significantly and more grimly, enslaved Africans
5YZLr TIL: The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.
Lk0Od TIL Indian businessman/billionaire Mukesh Ambani has invested $31 Billion to improve India's mobile and internet infrastructures since 2011, when his daughter, who was back home from Yale for holiday and tried to submit her coursework, told him that "the internet in our house sucks".
awgLM TIL that for the film "Deliverance", Warner Bros. took the song "Feudin' Banjos" and renamed it "Dueling Banjos", to avoid giving the original composer credit. He sued and received "substantial royalties".
loKJA TIL in World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack