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TIL in 2008 - before his actual death - 4chan started a prank claiming that Steve Jobs had died of a heart attack. The prank caught so much attention that it actually cause Apple’s value in stock to fall by 10% for a day

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nelJ7 TIL that the taste, color, and texture of natural honey is based on where bees get their pollen and nectar. Univarietal honey, such as blueberry honey, is created by placing a hive within about a 3 mile radius of where there is an abundance of one type of plant blooming.
ygnp TIL that Roosevelt is on the dime because he helped create March of Dimes, the organization that was originally a campaign to fund polio research.
d88aQ TIL MDMA or ecstasy, has been around for a very long time. It's been discovered as early as 1914, and done so by a pharmaceutical company from Germany called Merck. It was patented, but between its discovery and 1960’s when it was rediscovered, there is little mention of the drug
9LyM TIL French Bulldogs are anatomically unable to mate and have to be artificially inseminated.
Ooyn1 TIL that China's Great Firewall inventor had to use a VPN during a presentation on the merits of internet censorship