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TIL Selena Gomez became a billionaire in 2024 thanks to her make-up company

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WkbdL TIL that the award presented for the most battle ready ship is called the "Marjorie Sterrett" award. It is named after a 13 yr old girl who sent her allowance of 10 cents to the New York Tribune to help build warships for WWI. She asked that the next ship built be named "America".
epg9k TIL: There was a plot to assassinate Jimmy Carter in 1979. The assassins names were Raymond Lee Harvey and his partner Oswald.
JY5km TIL there's a gene, creatively named Indy, short for "I'm Not Dead Yet", in fruit flies, owing to the phenomenon where some of it's mutations almost double the lifespan of said host.
vPwg4 TIL about Superfecundation/bipaternization, when a woman is pregnant with 2 babies at the same time each with a different father.
epnLD TIL about windcatchers - towers to catch winds for natural ventilation of buildings without electricity. Windcatchers were an important architectural element in Persia and a solution for cooling. The warm air was cooled by the soil and water in the channel and released into the interior.