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TIL Steve Jobs has no public record of giving to charity

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789mX TIL that elephants have the longest pregnancy of any mammal, lasting around 22 months (nearly two years)
R5Zo8 TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.
9JaX TIL archive.org has a DMCA preservation exemption that LEGALLY allows download of 42gb of MAME ROMs
WkEYL TIL in 1999 Coca Cola invented a vending machine that could adjust its prices based on the temperature, allowing it to hike up the price of a Coke on a hot summer day. Customers denounced the idea, while even Pepsi accused Coke of exploitation
Wkmb9 TIL that the dress worn by Katrina at the end of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was just a white silk dress drawn on with magic marker to give it its black stripes.