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TIL: In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo at the age of 22 saying:“I don’t know what I could do with the money. I’d just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have.”

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BRak TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.
awwyo Pyrocumulus clouds tower tall above a wildfire in these photos taken last week from an Oregon National Guard F-15C. Most cumulus clouds form when the sun-warmed surface heats air, causing it to rise and carry moisture upward where it condenses to form clouds. In pyrocumulus clouds, the driving heat is supplied by a forest fire or volcanic eruption. The hot, rising air carries smoke and soot particles upward, where they become nucleation sites for condensation. Pyrocumulus clouds can be especially turbulent, and the gusting winds they produce can exacerbate wildfires. In some cases, the clouds can even develop into a pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorm with rain and lightning.
LQBlp TIL that India now has the world's largest population.
d8lv9 TIL only 11% of cases of "Influenza-like illness" are actually caused by Influenza, and ~ 68% by unknown agents.
QB5X TIL the actress who played the Yellow Power Ranger also plays the (always naked) foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie