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TIL that the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is only worth about $1 million dollars.

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AOen TIL that DARPA developed an aircraft that reached speeds between Mach 17 and Mach 22
XEXY6 TIL that Coca-Cola used to literally, unironically contain cocaine to round off its other main ingredient, caffeine.
oAJo TIL Easy-E’s last public statement before dying of AIDS: “A few times I used Jimmy-Hats, but most of the times, I did it raw, and I ain’t gay.”
0O0M TIL that when Lawrence Anthony, an international conservationist famously known as the ‘Elephant Whisperer’, died, some of the elephants he worked to save came to his family’s home in accordance with the way elephants usually mourn the death of one of their own.
awmON TIL that Ulithi, an isolated Pacific atoll used by the US Navy as a forward base during WWII, was for seven months the largest and most active anchorage in the world. At its height in the run-up to the invasion of Okinawa, more than 700 ships were anchored in its lagoon.