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TIL there are only three known photos and no media recordings of Germany’s richest person, Dieter Schwarz (net worth $38B). He is the former Chairman and CEO of supermarket chain Lidl.

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16p4X TIL Dennis Ritchie, who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of every software system we use on a daily basis, died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
6EZKY TIL about Bud Fowler, the first Black professional baseball player. He has now been inducted into the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame.
adY0 TIL an Iraqi informant single-handedly provided enough testimony about WMD’s between 1999-2001 to help justify the war in Iraq (2003-2011). An investigation in 2005 found he was crazy, out of control, a congenital liar, and an alcoholic. He later admitted he made it all up to be granted asylum.
awvoJ TIL the President's desk in the Oval Office of the White House was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880, & was carved from the HMS Resolute, a 19th century British Royal Navy ship that an American whaler recovered from the Arctic
xk45 TIL Doctor’s assessments of pain are influenced by how attractive a patient is.