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TIL after losing his Tour de France wins and sponsorship money due to the doping scandal, Lance Armstrong invested $100K in Uber when they were worth only $3.7 million. When Uber went public in 2009, Armstrong’s investment was worth $221 million.

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gOQ8 Today I Learned that a man thinks he traveled to another dimension where The Beatles never broke up. Here’s the story and the supposed songs he brought back.
N7ye6 TIL The word 'Welsh' comes from the Proto-Germanic 'Walhaz', meaning Roman/Celtic speaker. The countries/regions of Wales (UK), Wallonia (Predominately French speaking region in Belgium), Welschland (French speaking region of Switzerland) and many others all get their name from this.
BeND TIL Marie Curie (née Skłodowska) named the element Polonium (symbol: Po) after her country of birth, Poland (Latin: Polonia), which was then part of the Russian Empire.
5YR9 TIL on July 10, 1947, Senator Glen Taylor said: “I almost wish the flying saucers would turn out to be space ships from another planet, because the possibility of hostility would unify the people of the earth as nothing else could.”
GAZZG TIL Puffins Spend Almost All Their Time at Sea in the Winter