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TIL that playing the didgeridoo has been clinically proven to help treat sleep apnea.

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yVl6V TIL that when Larry Ellison divorced his wife Nancy in 1978, she gave up any claim on his new company for $500. That company, Oracle (the database company), made Ellison the world's eighth-richest person ($130 billion as of today).
d8R1B TIL of the Lost Scottish Clan of Gurro in Northern Italy. The claim is that retreating Scottish Guardsmen from a defeated French Army stopped in town and recreated their ways there, which remained preserved to this day.
KOPm9 TIL that sliced bread originated in a small Missouri town called Chillicothe.
VA4D TIL the historian Iris Chang, whose book “The Rape of Nanking” reached the New York Times Best Seller list when she was only 29 years old, was deep into research for her fourth book about the Bataan Death March, had a break with reality, and killed herself
epR6 TIL James Bond didn’t trust anyone who tied their tie with a Windsor Knot.