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TIL Bill Gates & Steve Jobs raised their kids tech free

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Bra1e TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese aerospace engineer who was a founding member of JPL. When he was stripped of his security clearances during the Red Scare despite protests by his colleagues, he moved back to China where he became well known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry"
PYKWn TIL there are microscopic living things in solid rock up to 7 km deep, called Endoliths. So little energy is available they undergo cell division once every 100 years, and some may only divide once every 10,000 years.
NKaN TIL If Adolf Hitler’s father hadn’t changed his name in 1877, his name would have been “Adolf Schicklgruber.”
p8Ye8 TIL that Stranger Things' actress Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, is deaf in one ear.
ANN1d TIL about Junior Bridgeman. He is a former NBA player who spent his offseasons working at Wendy's to better understand how the fast food chain operated. At the peak he owned over 100 Wendy's locations and is worth over $600 million.