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TIL the CEO of AMD (Lisa Su) is the cousin of Nvidia CEO and Co-Founder (Jensen Huang).

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ZoEo TIL Billy Joel received his high school diploma at age 43. In 1967 he was playing at a piano bar to help his mother make ends meet which interfered with his attendance, causing him to miss a crucial English exam. Decades later he completed the work.
Oo5PL TIL that Tuvalu gets 10% of its GDP from leasing its .tv Top Level Domain. This allowed it to able to enter the UN because it could finally afford the $100,000 entrance fee.
5nGr TIL Benjamin Franklin invented a musical instrument so popular that Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and Strauss all composed pieces specifically for it. It was also thought to drive people insane.
WkLJN TIL that Ukraine means "borderland" in both Russian and Polish.
9wlPD TIL that in 1948 that thousands of comic books were burned due to the thoughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham who saw a correlation between delinquents and reading comic books.