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TIL Shakespeare's Hamlet is loosely based on the medieval Scandinavian legend, Amleth, and was not a completely original story concept.

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VMlxB TIL that 90% of the coal we use today only exists because 300 million years ago, microbes that could ingest wood, did not exist, so trees would fall on top of each other, and the weight of all that heavy wood, over millions of years, would compress those trees into peat and then, into coal.
pjE8 TIL the CEO and co-founder of Spotify was also CEO of uTorrent
dV5B TIL that Iran has banned the mullet haircut to “confront the cultural assault by the West”.
GYRNN TIL a Navy Seal Lieutenant, Michael P. Murphy, along with a 4-man team were pinned down by nearly 100 Taliban Militants in a remote part of Afghanistan. Murphy made his way to a high-point in the mountains to successfully phone in reinforcements. He continued to fight for 2 hours until his death.
W7OlB TIL - NVIDIA's unofficial company motto is "Our company is thirty days from going out of business."