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VmDZ TIL that when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he closed the company’s philanthropic programs, and never revived them even when the company became spectacularly successful. Apple didn’t even have a matching program for charitable giving under his leadership, something other large companies do.
GYXJG TIL that before Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, he helped free a Colorado woman who was convicted of murder despite her being handcuffed in the back of a police car at the time. She would have served a life sentence without parole and was freed just one month after his death.
NXrlQ TIL about The returning soldier effect. It is a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.
KR8G TIL of a theme park in Transylvania that’s 400 feet below ground. Once a salt mine and cheese storing facility, visitors can ride a Ferris wheel, row around a lake, play mini golf, and more.
1MZ4 TIL the fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant have a mutualistic relationship whereby the plant’s stem provides a home for small colonies of ants who in turn keep the chemistry of the pitcher’s liquid balanced by removing large insects from inside, preventing the liquid from spoiling.