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TIL: Steve Jobs responded to an autograph request with a signed letter stating he doesn't write autographs.

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e09aJ TIL India is the world’s largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil
KOlNB TIL in 2007, a 12 year old Norwegian boy named Hans Jorgen Olsen saved both himself and his sister from a vicious moose attack using skills he learned from playing World of Warcraft; taunt and feign death.
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.