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TIL, John D. Rockefeller was the world's first Billionaire and it was his near-monopoly oil business in the USA that necessitated the federal and states governments to create Antitrust laws.

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mdDo TIL Nikola Tesla, who frequently had his ideas stolen, when asked about it said: “I don’t care that they stole my ideas… I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
wrMJ TIL millions of bats in North America are dying from a disease called White Nose Syndrome. Scientists don’t know how to treat the illness. In 2008 an estimated 2.4 million pounds of insects went uneaten due to the diminished bat population, causing major strain on agriculture in New England.
loDb5 TIL snakes can fly. They undulate their body to stay stable in the air.
KOnRG TIL that after a 35-year ban on cinemas in Saudi Arabia, the first movie they showed after the ban was lifted was 'The Emoji Movie'
4kLx5 TIL that a 2008 Sydney, Australia drug-case jury was dismissed for playing Sudoku during the trial