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TIL heavy smoke conducts electricity.

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loOlV TIL that in August of 1997, Bill Gates saved Apple, which was on the brink of bankruptcy. And, as part of the deal, Apple agreed to drop a lawsuit accusing Microsoft of copying its operating system.
0jAv TIL that on the last flight of the Concorde, Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water on Piers Morgan.
lD81 TIL That Nixon employed a foreign policy designed to make him appear “irrational and volatile” - literally called “The Madman Theory”
7rNVZ TIL There’s a belief in Korea that running a fan in a closed room causes death (Fan Death)
VBXpQ TIL during WW2 the Japanese sunk the USS Indianapolis, the captain of the Indianopolis, Charles B. McVay, would receive harrowing letters/phonecalls from the parents of the fallen sailors blaming him for their childrens' death over the years. He died in 1968, via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head