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TIL Mark Zuckerberg spent over $30 million to buy the houses of his surrounding neighbors. One of which, paying $14.5 million for a $3 million house

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yy18 TIL that Nazi eugenics programs had their start in the United States, with research funded by wealthy industrial leaders. A 1912 Carnegie Institute report even recommended the use of gas chambers as a solution to the problem of cleansing society of the poor, non-white, and mentally ill.
YAr7 TIL Johnny Cash recorded himself reading the entire King James New Testament.
80xX TIL the fall of Nokia has decimated Finland’s economy: “By 2000, Nokia accounted for a mindboggling 4% of Finnish GDP, 70% of Helsinki’s stock exchange market capital, 43% of corporate R&D, 21% of total exports and 14% of corporate tax revenues. It was and still is unprecedented.”
MeNaW TIL there's an Australian moth (Uraba lugens) that wears its previous heads as a hat. They call it the Mad Hatterpillar.
BoXk TIL of Berea College, a liberal arts college in Kentucky where tuition is free for all students as long as they partake in work-study. Its mission is to assist high-achieving students with low financial resources regardless of background.