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TIL A man named Mike Merrill decided to sell shares in himself at $1 a share allowing his stockholders decide what he should do with his life

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LkbYQ TIL the name of the German car manufacturer Audi is based on the Latin translation of the surname of its founder, August Horch. Horch means "listen" in German and becomes "audi" in Latin.
lVya TIL In 1948, A man was found dead on a beach in Adelaide and the words “Taman Shud”, torn from a book, in a hidden pocket. The rest of the book was found in a nearby car, with a mysterious code on a page only visible under UV Light. The code and the identity of the man has never been solved
O9rL TIL Fritz Christen was the sole survivor of a soviet skirmish. He held out alone for three days, without supplies or provisions, before a german counter-attack rescued him. During that time he single-handedly knocked out 13 soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers.
rePo TIL there is a Rubiks Cube made for the blind
5VM7r TIL that an African warlord ended up homeless in the Netherlands after his case was dropped by the ICC