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TIL Twitter has enough money in the bank to run for 412 years with current losses.

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1k9P TIL that Teddy Roosevelt volunteered for service in World War I ten years after having served as U.S. president.
kJ811 TIL The thick white rind on the outside of a wheel of brie cheese is actually mold, Penicillum candidum
9A46 TIL Sir Ranulph Fiennes, has run 7 marathons, on 7 consecutive days, in 7 continents after a heart attack and bypass operation,. Has hacked off his own frostbitten fingers with a power tool, discovered the lost city of Ubar, & in his sixties reached the peak of Everest.
RPbw TIL that R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking, but spent a such long time in the icy Atlantic ocean that doctors wanted to amputate his legs. He refused, recovered and went on to win his 1st US Tennis Championship that same year.
Dl6P TIL: Floyd Thompson was the longest held prisoner of war in US history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in Vietnam. When he returned, his wife was living with another man and of his 3 children, only his eldest child barely remembered him. Within 4 years of rescuing, he attempted suicide.