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TIL that the CEO of Spotify was once the CEO of uTorrent in 2006

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ZpGOG TIL that Granny Smith apples originated near Sydney, Australia in 1868 and were only first imported en masse to the US in the 1970’s.
gYjL TIL in 1992 the carrier Saratoga accidentally launched live missiles during a joint U.S - Turkish exercise, killing several Turkish naval officers.
xK85 TIL when a NatGeo Photographer tried to photograph a leopard seal, the seal tried to feed him penguins for 4 days, eventually getting panicked when he wouldn’t eat them.
Oonbg TIL the Netherlands and the british Isles of Scilly were technically at war with each other for 335 years with neither side realizing it. When peace was signed in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing to the Scillonians "to know we could have attacked at any moment."
PYJeV TIL there's a crypto-currency called DOGECOIN. They even have a market cap of USD $60 million!