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TIL that the president of Adobe software. Was kidnapped and held for 4 days.

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M7X8A TIL about Fusionism, where from 1894 to 1900 the North Carolina Republican Party and the Populist Party collaborated via electoral fusion to compete against the North Carolina Democratic Party. This coalition would play a pivotal role as being victims of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
KY8JG TIL that blue-green algae is not scientifically an algae, but instead a gram-negative bacteria. They are capable of oxygenic photosynthesis and have fossil records dating back 3.5 billion years. Furthermore, they are the first organisms known to have produced oxygen during the Great Oxidation Event.