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TIL Bill Gates can leap over an office chair from a standing position

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D1nOD TIL a Spanish archives director who only showed up to work to sign-in & sign-out for 10 years. During the time that he was "working," he ran a male brothel and was an erotic comic book artist who created a busty superheroine named Fallarela "who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies"
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