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TIL that Sir James Dyson started his vacuum company in his 40’s when he had three young kids and was in debt by putting up his home as collateral on a loan and now owns 100% of his company and has a personal net worth of over 7 billion dollars!

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VBMXQ TIL it was only 200 years ago Humans discovered Dinosaurs.
lood1 The boomerang seems as Australian as ''Waltzing Matilda,'' but the oldest specimen may have come from a far distant part of the world -Poland. Scientists, there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of the curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.
REx1 TIL a solar storm like the Carrington Event in 1859 would cause devastation to world electronics if it happened today.
LQNdP TIL that in 1996, a single wasp caused a commercial passenger plane to crash, resulting in the death of over 180 people
glZ4 TIL that is 2009 two men randomly decided to attack two men dressed in drag. It turned out the two drag queens were cage fighters in fancy dress.