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TIL Billionaire Peter Thiel paid $10 million to finance lawsuits against the media company Gawker, including the 2016 Hulk Hogan case that brought down the media company, as retaliation for an article outing him as gay in 2007.

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AN7xn TIL that the country Bosnia and Herzegovina does, as the name may suggest, consist of two separate autonomous entities. However they are "The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" and "Republika Srpska" and this is entirely coincidental.
wLKQW TIL of the Taman Shud Case; a mysterious stranger was seen behaving strangely in a small Australian town in 1948. The next day his dead body was found holding a scrap of paper with a mysterious code on it - to this day he remains unidentified.
a6by TIL Rich Moore, director of Wreck-It Ralph, was a director of several Simpsons Episodes in the early 90s, including the original Tree House of Horrors
gMGAy TIL the video game Plants vs. Zombies originally had a zombie that resembled Michael Jackson in the "Thriller" music video. After Jackson's death just two months after the game was released, the design was changed to a disco dancer after his estate complained.
9Y5YG TIL If the average night's sleep is eight hours (ie one third of a day), one sleeps for one third of one's life. If you live, say, 75 years, that's 25 years asleep, or 9,125 days