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TIL Steve Jobs has no public record of giving to charity

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oOWK TIL You only need the first 39 digits of pi to accurately calculate the spherical volume of the universe
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GAAK7 TIL That Heron of Alexandria created a mechanism that would automatically open the doors of a temple in the 1st-century BC
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