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TIL The creator of Firefox works on the Google Chrome team

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oBLDr TIL: Victor Goldschmidt, the founder of modern geochemistry carried a Cyanide pill as a last resort if captured by Nazi's. When a colleague asked him to create one for him, he stated, "Cyanide is for chemists; you, being a professor of mechanical engineering, will have to use the rope."
XEPo6 TIL of french writer Gabriel Matzneff. In spite of having described his pedophile activities and sexual tourism in several of his books, he remained sheltered from any criminal prosecution throughout his literary career and benefited from wide support within the French literary and political world.
Vm74 TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers’ first airplane
vyb4 TIL that Jerry Jones, in order to have nothing come from Pittsburgh, had the steel for the new Cowboys stadium shipped from Luxembourg
GAXVG TIL about “Lucy”. A white dwarf star, that is one of the largest diamonds in our local region of the universe.