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TIL Bill Gates accidentally got into philanthropy after he and his wife accidentally came across extremely impoverished people while they were sight seeing. He now says philanthropy is the "best job in the world."

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agBM TIL that Romeo and Juliet opens with two servants casually discussing how they will deflower and rape the Montague women.
MDvK TIL US government did not spend millions developing Space Pen while Russians used pencils. US also used pencils.
v15Z8 TIL of Godiva, who wanted lower taxes. To convince her husband the Earl, she rode her horse naked through the streets. The public was ordered to close their shutters. Tom decided to look and was struck blind. This produced the term "Peeping Tom" as well as the name of the chocolate company Godiva.
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