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TIL: In the UK they call Rube Goldberg machines "Heath Robinson contraptions"

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GwEN TIL the wife of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay, Linda Lay, sold roughly 500,000 shares of Enron 10 to 30 minutes before news about the collapse of the company went public. She was never charged with any of the events related to Enron.
4X88R TIL that Queen is the only band in the world where every member has written at least 3 number ones, meaning that the whole band is in the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
Vlkp TIL Snapchat’s expired snaps are not deleted, just hidden
9YDPD TIL King crabs are genetically closer to spiders than to crabs
mxwDP TIL Differences in traits between wheat-growing north and the rice-farming south of China. Northerners were more direct and less concerned with social conformity than Southerners, who were more "interdependent, holistic-thinking and fiercely loyal to their friends" attributed to climate differences.