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TIL founder and former-CEO of blood test diagnostics firm Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, who has been accused of massive fraud against investors, doctors and patients, is the daughter of a former executive at ENRON, one of the biggest corporate frauds in history.

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9VoB TIL that the urban legend of carrots giving night vision was invented as a cover-up by the British RAF in WWII. They were able to shoot down German planes at night using radar; rather than letting the enemy know about their technology, they claimed it was carrots that gave the gunners night vision
m1YDP TIL that spaghettification is when a star gets sucked into a black hole. The gravitational pull can shred the star into thin streams of material like spaghetti.
E1noo Planking for longer than 10 seconds is pointless, according to one professor.
X00eR TIL popular foam mattresses contain shards of fiberglass, and you can be very fucked if you remove the removable top cover
GAlDg TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.