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TIL Steve Jobs had a high school GPA of 2.65

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grD0X TIL In 1845, Carlo Matteucci who was a physicist and neurophysiologist invented the "Frog battery" using the injury potential created by frog's muscles.
M7A5m TIL Huy Fong’s sriracha (rooster sauce) almost exclusively used peppers grown by Underwood Ranches for 28 years. This ended in 2017 when Huy Fong reneged on their contract, causing the ranch to lose tens of millions of dollars.
0w7Rp TIL the stadion, formerly also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time; showing how we're not the first to measure some things in football fields.
VMk9G TIL fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear, including ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets.
OGya4 TIL Ohio State University trademarked the word “the”