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TIL NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are not only leaders of major tech companies but also cousins.

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1yL4 TIL there is one reported incident of a midair collision of a 737 and a fish.
QJEVe TIL there is a mini “desert”, called the Athabasca Sand Dunes, near the northern border of Saskatchewan. It is the most northerly active sand dunes on the Earth.
4k6R6 TIL In December 2016, a right-to-life lawsuit against actress Sofia Vergara was initiated in Louisiana with Vergara's frozen embryos as plaintiffs. The embryos were named "Emma" and "Isabella" in the lawsuit, and their "trustee" was listed as James Charbonnet, a New Orleans resident (zero relation).
Egbeo TIL in 2004, during an interview with Stephen Hawking, a camera operator accidentally pulled one of the plugs causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. They thought this act had killed him only to find him laughing at his own jokes, The alarm was from his computer losing power
5YKKn TIL of King's Lomatia, whose entire species consists of 500 identical clones in a 1.2 km area of Tasmania. The 44 thousand year old clonal colony “doesn’t do sex” and is dying out despite conservation attempts.