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TIL that in 1997, Microsoft saved Apple from bankruptcy by investing $150 million into the company.

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6ElkX TIL Willem Kieft, leader of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, ordered an attack on a native village after some pigs have been stolen from a colonist's farms. They later determined that the pigs were actually stolen by fellow colonists.
a889Z Til that the smallest chameleon ever discovered is 21.66mm long and it's genitals make up 20% of its body length.
GYw0J TIL Bobby Fischer invented the Fischer clock, the standard chess clock in major tournaments. It was even used in his match against Spassky in 1992. Fischer later complained he was cheated out of the royalties.
VBwK8 TIL of the "Aloha Spirit" law, Hawai'i Revised Statutes, Section 5-7.5: " 'Aloha Spirit' is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the self. Each person must think and emote good feelings to others. In the contemplation and presence of the life force (hā)."
9Y6D7 TIL that William Burke, who killed with his partner 16 persons and sold their bodies for use as specimens in anatomy classes of Edinburgh Medical School, was hanged and his corpse was publicly dissected and preserved in the anatomical museum of the same school.