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TIL Bill gates bought a Porsche 959 which was seized by customs & sat on a storage for 13 years before he helped pass law “show & display law” which allowed for legally importing exotic cars that did not meet the federal safety standards

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awWG0 TIL: Viruses can live up to 18 days on steel, but only one on denim cloth. University of Iowa research
8nZZ TIL that Snoop Dogg once tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a video shoot, and the main reason they said no is because he didn’t give them enough notice.
ADpRo TIL “We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.” That’s more than 10 species every day.
Z8B7G TIL The crew of the space shuttle Columbia knew of the catastrophic re-entry failure, and that they were going to die for 40 seconds before rapid cabin depressurization
yQWyp TIL When Edison was 15 he sold newspapers to the railroads, & saved the Station Master’s 2 yr old son from getting hit by a train.The Station Master repaid Edison by training him as a telegraph operator. Edison was adept and sold a better process to W.Union giving him the $ needed to launch his lab.