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TIL Barry Bonds record breaking home run ball was donated to the baseball hall of fame branded with an asterisk

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R5WL9 TIL when Steve Jobs was 13, he was given a summer job by Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project.
m1Y5v TIL black widow spiders are not aggressive — you often have to actually pinch or squeeze one to get it to attack — but their venom makes bites extremely painful to humans, and to small animals like mice, fatal.
j66YE TIL that there are around 50-60 blue faience hippopotamus statuettes that survived from Ancient Egypt. Due to the danger hippos posed in the wild, they often snapped off the legs of hippopotamus statuettes before placing them in tombs, so the hippos wouldn’t be able to eat the soul of the deceased.
Oo40a TIL that doctors sloppy handwriting cause over 1.5 million medical injuries because pharmacists and hospital workers are unable to read the prescriptions
VxVG TIL about the Old Man, a 30 foot tree stump that has been floating around vertically on Crater Lake for 130 years and scientists aren’t really sure why.