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TIL Forrest Gump’s investment in Apple stock would be worth nearly $7billion today.

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NXAl6 TIL the Walt Disney Company tried to trademark the name “Seal Team 6” the day after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
4MDw TIL a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18 after needing 13 liters of blood during a major chest surgery at 13. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood more than 1,000 times, saving over 2,000,000 lives.
ep0pk TIL The smallest park in the world called Mill Ends Creek is a circle in a street 2 feet across located in Portland, Oregon.
eNOE TIL that Ève Curie unlike her mother, father, sister, brother in law and husband never won even a single Nobel Prize.
5Voop TIL that Yoko Ono, the wife of musician John Lennon, is the great-granddaughter of Yasuda Zenjiro, the founder of the Yasuda Zaibatsu that got dissolved at the end of World War II.