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TIL During Larry Ellison’s divorce shortly after founding Oracle, his wife forfeited her claim to the company in exchange for $500. Ellison is worth about $50,000,000,000 today.

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vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.
vAjB TIL of child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong - The Man With World’s Highest IQ who was fluent in 4 languages by the age of 4 and began attending university the same year.
4kdGo TIL the only US Presidents who are alive are those born in hospitals; all who were not have passed away.
GYxNJ TIL that the Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad by breaching Nazi flanks and attacking the Stalingrad from behind. The name of this operation? Operation Uranus.
b6vR9 TIL the V-2 rockets the Nazis used to shell London in a terror campaign "had no effect on the outcome of the war", and were such a waste of resources that Freeman Dyson described the V-2 program as "almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament."