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TIL David Nutt invented “alcosynth” — a synthetic version of alcohol without the negative toxins and hangovers. Nutt hopes alcosynth could replace traditional alcohol by 2050

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x6Lyo TIL that in the 84's Olympics, an athlete replaced herself with her twin sister to compete after an injury.
lo4EV TIL In March of 2005 this guy bought 100% of shares (1.1M shares) in a traded company to prove the corruption. The next two days that same stock traded 50 million times and dropping the price 99% in two hours. All this with LITERALLY NO SHARES AVAILABLE TO BORROW OR SHORT.
dWvB TIL in 1976, Steve Jobs offered Atari founder Nolan Bushnell a 30% stake in Apple if Bushnell would put $50,000 towards the company. He said no. “It’s kind of fun to think about that, when I’m not crying.”
e0xeD TIL that despite Joe Frazier coming to Muhammad Ali's aid when Ali was being frozen out by the government Ali continuously painted Frazier as a villain including referring to him as a "gorilla" and "Uncle Tom". Frazier never forgave him until the day he died
jN8NX TIL about former American slave, John Berry Meachum, who began teaching classes for black people on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River to work around the state of Missouri's prohibition of black education.