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kPVg TIL Mark Zuckerberg is not the world’s youngest billionaire. Rather, it is his former college roommate, Dustin Moskovitz, who is a mere 8 days younger and also made his fortune in Facebook.
wLZ4E TIL Carbon dating anything past the 1950's is likely to be unreliable because of the nuclear weapons testing artificially altering the proportion of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere
16oEW TIL when Gelje Sherpa spotted a Malaysian climber struggling in the 'death zone' on Everest, he ended his client's bid to the summit to rescue the climber. So Gelje strapped the climber to his back & carried him down 600 meters taking about 6 hours. Another guide then helped him complete the rescue.
0wrL5 TIL Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother. The boyfriend was a known abuser.
WOE8 TIL Max Planck’s wife and all four of their children died tragically. Their second son died in WWI, their daughter died during child birth, her twin sister married the widower and herself also died during child birth and the remaining son was executed for a failed assassination attempt on Hitler.