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TIL despite being worth an estimated $8.3 billion there is no public record of Steve Jobs giving money to charity. He declined to participate in the Giving Pledge founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates

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6EpOX TIL US Presidents, Vice Presidents and their families have Secret Service code names. Some recent ones are "Renegade", "Renaissance", "Mogul", "Muse" and "Hoosier".
mxLWv TIL that nationalgeographic has a til show
PYeWe TIL Of Shavarsh Karapetyan, a 17x world champion, 10x world record breaking finswimmer who heard a bus crash into a river, saved 20 drowning people, unconscious for 45 days, got sepsis, retired from sport, and later badly burnt himself saving people from a burning building.
QJlEa TIL that Febreze is actually odorless as it simply kills smells but people don't associate lack if smell with being clean. Once fake 'clean' scents were added to the formula, sales skyrocketed.
Y85d TIL in 1954 the USSR proposed a dam to the U.S. that would close off the Bering Straight. The Soviets claimed it would block arctic cold currents that flow down over Korea and the Sea of Japan, warming it as much as 30 degrees. The U.S. declined.