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TIL Amazon holds a patent on 1-click buying; Apple pays them licensing fees

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DOKP TIL: Hitler was well aware of what his reputation would be after the war. Albert Speer recalls: “We were alone, silently watching twilight darken into night…Hitler says: ‘If I fail, I shall be the most despised man in history.’”
VMMdm A broken heart is not a recognised medical condition, but there's evidence to suggest it can be fatal.
1ERW TIL that a 35-year-old named Mitchell Heisman left a 1,905 page suicide note about the meaningless of life before killing himself.
j64AM TIL that for any three spheres that touch each other, you can find a "necklace" of six spheres that touch all of them. This necklace is called a Soddy's Hexlet.
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