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TIL Bill Gates' full name is William Henry Gates III

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EAdx TIL Minecraft’s creator, Markus Persson, had severe OCD and needed everything to be placed in its own square on a grid in his mind, leading to the cubic design of the game we know today.
6l9X TIL: all female placental mammals menstruate, but only female humans, bats, elephant shrews and some primate species bleed, which is called overt menstruation. Other mammals completely reabsorb the endometrium in what is known as covert or ‘true’ menstruation.
g7J8 TIL you have a ‘second brain’ embedded in the wall of your gut which controls digestion and has five times more neurons than a rat’s brain
O1RR TIL photojournalist Kevin Carter killed himself 3 mos. after winning the Pulitzer Prize because of the toll taken by the atrocities he had witnessed
D1OLp TIL that sloths only poop once a week