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TIL Venus Flytraps are native to with an approximate 100mi circle around Wilmington, North Carolina – not the Amazon or some other jungle.

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gMryb TIL In order to rescue Ethiopian Jews, the Mossad bought and ran a profitable scuba diving resort in Sudan between 1982 and 1984. 8,000 people were safely smuggled to Israel.
L0eP TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows’ GUI OS. “You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
R7y54 TIL the inventor of the U-bar bike lock and founder of Kryptonite, Stanley Kaplan, was bought out by his business partner Michael Zane, who proceeded to remove Kaplan from company history and claim that he had invented the lock.
9RQG TIL The newest US Navy destroyer is so stealthy that they have to affix huge reflectors on it during peacetime operations because radar thinks the 610-foot warship is a 50-foot fishing vessel which has already caused one near-collision with a civillian vssel.
W7y1d TIL: 242 known languages went extinct during the 20th century