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TIL Angel investor Jason Calacanis turned a $25k initial investment in Uber into $100M

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bDpj TIL Every Restaurant From Season 2 of Kitchen Nightmares Has Closed.
wLo7W TIL that the ADE 651; an inert rod of metal with a plastic hinge, was sold as a bomb detector. It was used by the militaries of Iraq, Afghanistan and more than a dozen other countries for years before anyone noticed that it did nothing at all.
OopXg TIL that the same car (a 1907 Contal Mototri) that finished the Peking to Paris race in 1907 finished the motor rally again in 2019.
KYLAa TIL about the Oneida Nation, the US's first ally in the Revolutionary War, who were granted land protection after the war for a brief period.
Wx4X TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.