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TIl Wozniak has credited watching Star Trek and attending Star Trek conventions while in his youth as a source of inspiration for his starting Apple Inc.

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eMQE TIL a Canadian Senator once read his favorite book in its entirety during a filibuster so that it would be translated into French in the Canadian Hansard (debate transcript) for free.
EgVRW TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes and let them fly around, saying, “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.” He then revealed the mosquitoes were malaria-free.
DVDp TIL: Victoria’s Secret was founded by a guy in the 1970’s who had a very unpleasant experience while trying to buy his wife some underwear. The employees treated him as a pervert. VS almost failed since it catered mostly to men in the beginning.
wNWE TIL that it is possible to drain the Mediterranean sea by closing the Gibraltar straight. This was the idea behind Hermann Sörgel’s Atlantropa project - the plan to create Lebensraum in a European-African supercontinent.
rPe4 TIL Maine is the closest US state to Africa.