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TIL Mr. T Stopped Wearing His Trademark Gold Jewelry Because of His Experience Helping People After Hurricane Katrina “I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”

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wVD7 TIL when Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
rRlM0 TIL that a liquor store in the United Kingdom is called an "Off license" because they are licensed to sell liquor for consumption elsewhere, or "off" the premises.
kO987 TIL The International Federation of Robotics has Japanese robot manufacturers delivering over half of the world's robots, 52% of the total global supply.
9w5ZG TIL a Triple Tautonym occurs when a genus, species name, and subspecies name are all the same word. Examples include Gorilla gorilla gorilla (western lowland gorilla) and Pica pica pica (Eurasian magpie). These names are allowed in Zoology but not in Botany.
WaR9 TIL of “Reichstag fire”, a term used to denote a calamitous event staged by a political movement, orchestrated in a way that casts blame on their opponents, causing the opponents to be viewed with suspicion by the public. The Reichstag fire was seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.