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TIL that the graffiti artist who painted Facebook's office is now worth $200 million after taking stock options before Facebook's IPO instead of cash

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e6rL TIL two people, the pilot and passenger of a private plane, in Ocala, FL died while trying to have sex in flight. They were nominated for a Darwin Award in 1994.
oBOrE TIL in 2007, Hong Kong researchers warned the "presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb"
gMyEW TIL that software bugs in a radiation therapy machine were responsible for killing 3 people with high doses of radiation
wn7E TIL That Japan’s surrender following the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki may have been due in part to the “confession” of the captured US pilot Marcus McDilda, revealed under totrture that the US had 100 atomic bombs and would bomb Tokyo and Kyoto next.
GA11g TIL when the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in 1967, they had the name of the man who wore their mascot costume engraved on the cup.