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TIL Indian businessman Anil Ambani was once the sixth richest person in the world to later declare bankrupt with zero networth after considering his liabilities

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p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.
D17np TIL: The PH scale was invented in Carlberg's laboratory to improve the brewing process of beer.
Be5W TIL that on Christmas Eve in 2008, SpaceX and Tesla were literally hours from bankruptcy until Elon Musk was able to secure $20M from investors in those final hours. Two days later, SpaceX won a contract with NASA worth $1.6B.
v115D TIL that within about 600 million years, faster weathering of rocks by an increasingly brighter sun will reduce atmospheric CO2 levels below the threshold required for trees to survive, and all of earth's forests will die.
p8eLZ TIL that Charles Martinet, voice of Mario, Waluigi, and other characters, has his own Waluigi headcanon. He believes Waluigi is full of self-pity, and that he and Wario are just "two nice, evil guys who found each other."