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TIL Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation, has an armada of luxury yachts worth around $1 billion.

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v1PWB TIL that in 2016 India gave its citizens less than 4 hours notice that their two largest bills (worth about $8 and $16) would no longer be legal tender. They were only allowed to exchange a max of ₹2000-4500 ($31-70) per person per day, and ATMs were still running out of cash up to 5 months later.
kOwem TIL that our strongest memories are usually widely inaccurate. It feels like memories of traumatic events “burn” themselves into our minds to remain there forever, but studies have shown that the stronger the emotional state you were in during that event, the more inaccurate the memory is.
VB4k TIL that the Daily Show’s John Oliver is married to an Iraq War vet - they met when she hid him and his crew from security during the 2008 RNC!
ANxXB TIL: Eugene Bullard (1895–1961) was the first Black combat pilot, serving in the French Air Service during WWI. An American expatriate, he later became a jazz musician, boxer, and club owner in Paris after escaping Jim Crowe. He used his status in Parisian high society to spy on the Nazis.
kO4lW TIL In 2011, South Korea passed a law called "Cinderella Law" prohibiting children under 16 from playing online video games between 12 am to 6 am.