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TIL that 1985 Steve Jobs hid his Porsche 911 to secure $20M funding from Ross Perot for his new computer company

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6Eebl TIL of Albert Battel and Max Liedtke, German officers who threatened to shoot a group of SS attempting to execute Jews in Poland. They successfully rescued 100 Jews, and are among the few Wehrmacht members to be recognised as Righteous Among the Nations
7rx4M TIL that Elvis Presley's song Jailhouse Rock is ONE of SimFarm's BGM.
VMOLZ TIL that all lakes in the state of Maryland are man-made
neJpd TIL William Shockley, a co-inventor of the transistor, decided to cease silicon-based research. The remaining researchers disagreed with him and went on to form Intel, AMD and National Semiconductor.
EGp7 TIL Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.