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TIL the billionaire founder of Duty Free Shoppes is a lifelong renter and has donated his entire $8 Billion fortune to philanthropic initiatives

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D1dng TIL that former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak (Served 2008-2013) is currently serving a 15-year term in prison, and has been forced to pay $11.5m in fines. He was convicted on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuses of power, namely taking a bribe to pardon the chairman of Samsung.
bZmZ TIL that even when a mouse population has enough resources- it will experience a societal breakdown when it runs out of space and then die off completely.
M74kb TIL that US troops using flash card apps accidentally revealed classified information about nuclear weapons in Europe, such as vault locations, surveillance camera positions, signs/countersigns, and duress words.
wao TIL that ancient greek buildings and statues weren’t white, but in fact very colorful when they weren’t ancient.
D1oNP TIL A pizza company, Zume Pizza uses robots for many stages of pizza production. The pizzas are cooked en route in a van equipped with 56 GPS-equipped automated ovens, timed to be ready shortly before arrival at the address, and are then sliced by a self-cleaning robot cutter.