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TIL:A billionaire spent decades giving away his fortune so he could die broke.

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9Qrp TIL There is a type of almost-perfectly-square bacteria that lives in extremely salty lakes around the world.
vPRN7 TIL the number of glass-related injuries in the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 led to the review of glass used in buildings 'at risk', and a modern blast-resistant standard can be seen at work in the laminated glass windows shot at by a disgruntled individual in the Canberra Airport, Australia this week.
p8KkN TIL Unobtainium, a metal featured in films like "Avatar" and "The Core", was an engineering term coined in the 50's to describe any highly desirable material that is hypothetical, scientifically impossible, extremely rare, costly, or fictional
nWr69 TIL Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it
JjN1 TIL The Economist named Hank Hill as one of the wisest people on television.