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TIL Princeton dropout and creator of the 5-hr Energy drink says he has $4 billion more than he needs; he plans to spend his fortune to distribute 10,000 free electric battery-equipped stationary bikes in India, which will run lights/basic appliances for 1day per 1 hr of pedaling.

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1akW4 TIL: The first person to build a programmable humanoid robot was the Arab Muslim scholar Abu Alîzz Al-Jazari in 1206 AD
VMwX4 TIL that elephants lack a scrotum and their testes are located internally near their kidneys. This fact, along with other embryological and palaeontological evidence, suggests that their ancestors were aquatic.
4nYX TIL that Italy has more active Aircraft Carriers than any other country except the US. It has two.
16MEP TIL that George Clooney is actually a movie director.
Ox8g TIL During the Berlin Airlift one of the pilots gave some candy to some children in Berlin. After seeing how much they enjoyed it he began dropping candy from his airplane before landing. Other pilots soon joined in and over 23 tons of candy would be dropped over Berlin.