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TIL: In 2008, a 4chan user made a prank about how Steve Jobs “died of a heart attack”, after the prank went around social media, Apple’s stock dropped around $5,000,000,000 because of the joke.

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b9Mjp TIL In 1911, Bobby Leach was the 2nd person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He died 15 years later from slipping on an orange peel and getting gangrene
kJerW TIL On 27 March 2021, Croatia’s Budimir Šobat achieved the world record for breath-holding underwater, with a time of 24 minutes and 37 seconds. However, he breathed pure oxygen before immersion.
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