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TIL: Steve Jobs was infamous for parking his Mercedes in handicapped parking spots. He also didn’t use license plates.

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NrVQ TIL the Nepal government now charges $25,000 USD to climb to the upper base camp of Mount Everest.
d8QO7 TIL that the planet Neptune, which can only be seen by telescope, was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed for the first time on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried.
ymOe TIL of a guy who made a chicken sandwich literally from scratch – he grew a garden, harvested wheat, slaughtered a chicken, travelled to boil ocean water for salt, etc – it took him 6 months and cost him $1,500. He didn’t think it tasted very good.
7rGRX TIL that the founder of T-Series, Gulshan Kumar, was murdered in August 1997 by the Mumbai Organised Crime Syndicate for refusing to pay protection money to them. This exposed the decades old nexus between Mumbai Gangs and Bollywood.
l7XGK TIL that vulture bees are a kind of bee that feed on rotting meat and produce a decay-resistant edible glucose product resembling honey. This is mistakingly called “meat honey” because it’s not actual honey, while the honey that bees do have is of unknown origin.