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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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R7ZoQ TIL Biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini was forced to hide during the Nazi occupation of Italy. She later identified nerve growth factor as a protein, winning the Nobel in Medicine. She lived to over 100 and claimed "At 100, I have a mind that is superior, thanks to experience, than when I was 20"
rMx1 TIL 12 attoseconds is currently the shortest measurable amount of time… one attosecond is the time it takes for a beam of light to travel from one hydrogen atom to another.
rRrYy TIL that the dancers in the game Just Dance are literally painted white that is why they all appear white in the game. Hence, they are real and not just computer-generated animations.
rQDW TIL Privately-owned K9 teams are increasingly being used by parents to sniff out drugs hidden around their homes by their teenage children
ekWn TIL on July 6th, 1944 Jackie Robinson was once ordered to move to the back of a bus while in uniform. Robinson refused and received a court martial. An army court found that Robinson was completely within his rights, and fully acquitted the future baseball star.