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TIL Heineken manufactured a bottle shaped like a brick in order to deal with the housing problem in the Caribbean

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yNrv TIL Bill Gates wrote his high school’s class scheduling program. He modified it so that he was placed in classes with the “right” girls.
0d06R TIL that a British-born man from San Francisco named Joshua Norton declared himself "Emperor of the United States" in 1859.
dvw9 TIL when Adolf Eichmann, aka “the architect of the Holocaust”, was on trial for his war crimes, he couldn’t afford the attorney he wanted. Not wanting any reason to question the legitimacy of the trial, the Israeli government paid for Eichmann to be represented by the lawyer of his choosing.
X0mP8 TIL bamboo can grow at a rate of approx. 1m/3ft in just 24 hours
awXX0 TIL: Muhammad Ali knocked down only 4 times in his entire 21-years career. In all of them, he stood up within 5 seconds.