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TIL Bill Gates was granted Knighthood following his commitment of $200 million to Cambridge to help fund AIDS vaccine research

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wBJJ TIL A Marine called the Barrett Firearms customer service line while in an active firefight to get help with his rifle.
GAKR7 TIL that in 1910 English pranksters disguised as Ethiopian diplomats fooled the Royal Navy into giving them a tour of HMS Dreadnought. They spoke a gibberish of mostly Greek and Latin and would shout "Bunga bunga!" to express astonishment. One of them was author Virginia Woolf.
OWGX TIL The previous United Airlines CEO was payed out $37 million after quitting amid a corruption investigation
v15XL TIL that the person actually responsible for making the first two Stars Wars films major box office hits was Ashley Boone Jr., the first black man to head the marketing and distribution dept. at a major studio--20 Century-Fox. He was also the first black president of the studio for a brief time.
VXWZ TIL that Clint Eastwood, who has been on horseback in many of his movies, had a mid-life allergy to horses.