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TIL Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since 2007, Saving 6 Million Lives

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8a7PV TIL about Jahangir Khan: A Pakistani squash player who won the World Open 6 times and went undefeated from 1981-1986, winning 555 games in a row which is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
ARxl TIL Leonard Nimoy was so associated with Spock’s character he was once invited to the California Institute of Technology to review work on several projects. He later admits not knowing a word of what they were saying, but remained in character.
16B57 TIL the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye" is the first film to be filmed at Leavesden Studios. The former aerodrome was chosen by the filmmakers as Pinewood (the usual Bond studio), was already being booked for other productions.
M7VZV TIL: The origin of the "tennis bracelet" came from the 1987 US Open when Chris Evert lost her diamond tennis bracelet and stopped the match to look for it
4oeN TIL that the kids in Are You Afraid of the Dark were throwing non dairy creamer on the fire to make it flare up.