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TIL despite not being involved with the company for decades, Steve Wozniak remains an employee at Apple and still gets a salary because nobody will fire him

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dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.
wLA86 TIL about Leonid Ivanovich Rogozo. He was the only medical staffer stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station(Soviet Antarctic Expedition). While there, he developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself in a case of self-surgery.
5YMjR TIL Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell took home a 16 mm camera from the Lunar Module that would have otherwise been destroyed. Mitchell tried to auction the camera to help medical treatments for his son who had cancer before he agreed to relinquish the camera by donating it to the Smithsonian
pvXN TIL that Owsley Stanley singlehandedly ignited the psychedelic scene in the sixties by producing over 1 million doses of LSD from a makeshift bathroom laboratory in Berkeley.
4k6Y6 TIL, that France shares its largest border with Brazil