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TIL Jawdat Ibrahim, an Arab Israeli man, won $22m the Illinois lottery in 1990 and used his winnings to develop his home village of Abu Ghosh. The hummus restaurant he opened there has been used to host Israel-Palestine peace talks, and set the world record for largest Hummus.

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WkkMY TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” & waited for ~a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
8aoeV TIL of xenobots; Synthetic lifeforms designed by AI which are part robot, part organism, the size of a grain of sand and capable of performing tasks such as pushing payloads, cleaning debris, working together in swarms and even reproduce new xenobots
dDO7 TIL Bill Murray’s brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, voice acts Captain K'nuckles from misadventures of Flapjack and The Flying Dutchman from spongebob.
AD4ol TIL of Libertinism, described as an extreme form of hedonism. Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. Notable practitioners included Cyrano de Bergerac, Aleister Crowley, Don Juan, and even some people from modern times.
J1LAl TIL about Ken McElroy an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri, United States. He was known as "the town bully", and his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. Brad Wesley, in the 1989 action movie Road House, is based on him.