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TIL Bill Gates got knighted by the Queen.

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oBoBW TIL the mosquitos they extracted the blood from to create the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park didn’t actually suck blood, negating the entire premise of the film
4A7N TIL that immediately after the founding of Israel on May 14, 1948, before their defense force was even founded, five Arab nations (Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan) declared war on it
xVY77 TIL Urine was so important to the textile industry of 16th century England that casks of it–an estimated amount equivalent to the urine stream of 1000 people for an entire year–were shipped from across the country to Yorkshire
DOmv TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
G8Ej TIL Horatio G. Spafford wrote the famous hymn “It is Well With My Soul” after hearing that his four daughters had died on a ship collision. This was two years after his only son died to pneumonia and his entire business was destroyed by the Chicago fire.