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TIL Rolex company is owned by a private trust , shares are not traded on any stock exchange and most of its profit goes to charity

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9gxM TIL Ben Franklin’s brother would not print any of 16-year-old Ben’s letters at the newspaper he published, so Ben invented a pseudonym, the widow Mrs. Silence Dogood. Readers thought she was a charming woman and several offered to marry her.
R5rV7 TIL the 🔫 emoji was the subject of controversy & was repeatedly redesigned.
J17V8 TIL: James Cameron ended up marrying the actress (Suzy Amis) who played Rose's granddaughter.
Oong6 TIL the guns on the HMS Belfast, the battleship moored on the Thames, are aimed at a service station in North London
QJXOa TIL of Rick Rescorla, who saved all but 6 of his 2700 employees during the 9/11 attacks by directing people down the stairs using a bullhorn and encouraging them by singing Cornish songs.