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TIL Ric Weiland, Microsoft’s second employee, quietly donated to various organizations, including 11 different LGBTQ nonprofits. By the time of his passing in 2006 - suicide following a battle with depression - he had donated $21.5 million, and bequeathed an additional $170 million.

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v19MB TIL about the story of Kakudmi, Who travelled into the cosmos in search of a groom for his daughter. When he came back to earth he experienced time dilation and generations had passed in his short trip around the universe.
78ekM TIL the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516) began as France & the Papal States v. Venice for two years, continued as Venice & the Papal States v. France for three years, then ended as France & Venice v. the Papal States for three years. By war's end, no side had gained or lost any territory.
9w84B TIL the song 'Seasons in the Sun' was originally written about a man dying of a broken heart while accepting that his wife cheated on him many times, and was written in a brothel in Tangiers
JYZgm TIL about Ern Malley, a fictitious Australian poet created to ridicule modernist poetry. A modernist journal devoted an issue to his poems and the editor was sued for immoral material. A policeman said "I don't know what 'incestuous' means, but I think there is a suggestion of indecency about it."
9Y4Wm TIL about 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.