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TIL Just before going out of business, the founder of FEDEX took the companies last $5,000, went to vegas and played blackjack, winning enough money to keep the company afloat.

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E0RW TIL that Marie Curie’s daughter also received a Nobel prize in chemistry. And she also shared it with her husband.
M77wa TIL That Hawaii is not protected under Article V of NATO because it wasn't granted statehood until almost a decade after NATO was formed.
LXrm TIL when Quentin Roosevelt was shot down over France in WW1 the Germans buried him with military honors “because he was a gallant aviator, who died fighting bravely against odds and because he was the son of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt whom they esteemed as one of the greatest Americans”
G6V4 TIL 90% of Paraguayans speak Guarani, a native American Indian language.
eerk TIL in the 1938 World Cup Sweden advanced to the quarterfinals due to an Austrian forfeit. The Austrians were forced to withdraw as their home country had just been invaded by Germany.