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TIL in 2015, Forbes named entrepreneur/CEO Elizabeth Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Then in 2016, allegations of fraud collapsed her company's valuation, rendering her stock worthless and reducing her net worth to zero.

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GYlO4 TIL Big Cypress, a music festival held by the band Phish on News Years Eve 1999 in to 2000, had 85,000 in attendance making it the largest Millennium Eve concert that night. This is the longest Phish concert ever, culminating in a 7.5 hour long second set from midnight to sunrise New Year's Day.
ADPbx TIL Napoleons troops got stoned af after their conquest of alcohol-free Egypt
LkkM0 TIL Angus Young, the lead guitarist, and co-founder of AC/DC is a teetotaller!
Roka TIL that in Canada, a sex doll in a schoolgirl outfit is considered “child pornography”.
QgBd TIL that playing Tetris after a traumatic event can reduce the number of flashbacks later experienced