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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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69N97 TIL that there are places in England and Wales called "The Thankful Villages" - Where no men from the village died in the First World War. There are 41 of these villages.
MerRb TIL That the claim about Fleming not wanting to patent penicillin so that the diffusion could spread faster, is false. He didn't have any means to bring it into mass production; besides, he didn't consider himself the inventor, attributing penicillin to nature.
JJpm TIL during initial showings of a scene in the 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” where a character fires a gun straight at the camera, it is said audience members ducked and put their fingers in their ears, despite the film being silent; some are even said to have fired back at the screen.
ogLA TIL Up to 70% of people will experience a hypnagogic jerk when falling asleep. A hypnagogic jerk is an involuntary muscle spasm that occurs as a person is drifting off to sleep. The phenomenon is so named in reference to the hypnogogic state — the transitional period between wakefulness and sleep.
LyGm TIL: Johnny Knoxville comes from significant inbreeding.