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TIL that for a brief time in 2011, Apple had more money than the U.S. government….

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6E5Z TIL on September 7, 1978, a Bulgarian Dissident Writer named Georgi Markov was waiting at a bus stop in London when he felt what he thought was a bug bite. Three days later he died, having been shot in the leg with a sophisticated umbrella-gun loaded with a bullet containing ricin poison.
X0D06 TIL Jimi Hendrix never had a #1 single. Or even in the top 10. His highest charting single reached #20.
0jaM TIL that Roger Federer’s coach, Peter Carter, was killed in a car crash in South Africa in 2002. Every year since 2005, Federer arranges for Carter’s parents to fly out of Adelaide to attend the Australian Open in Melbourne, where they sit in his box, stay at his hotel, and attend the celebrations.
ne1YW TIL Cincinnati has 2 miles of incomplete subway tunnels that have been abandoned, yet in decent shape, for almost 100 years.
DQdwj TIL about a freediver called Herbert Nitsch which has dived to a depth of 214 meters , gaining the title of ''the deepest man on earth''.