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TIL Lou Pai, one of Enron executives, resigned and sold his shares for $250 million to get divorced and marry a stripper. The company collapsed few months later.

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aEBo TIL Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC News Anchor, refused to read a report about Paris Hilton’s release from jail on National Television and ranking it over a story on the Iraq War. Then after repeatingly being pressured to do the story, she attempted to light the script on fire on the air.
KOyQ6 TIL about a British man who bought a ceramic pot at a junk sale for less than £4 and used it as a toothbrush holder until learning it was actually made in the Indus Valley of present-day Afghanistan about 4,000 years ago. It's thought the pot was originally brought to the UK by British tourists.
MxVW TIL it costs 70 000$ just to get a permit to climb Mount Everest
6mEw TIL in 1993, The Barbie Liberation Organization challenged gender stereotypes by switching the voice boxes of hundreds of Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and ‘reverse shoplifting’ them back into stores. Barbies would yell, “Eat lead, Cobra!” while G.I. Joes would ask, “Want to go shopping?”.
4mkw TIL That Sean parker, founder of illegal music filesharing site Napster, is now the person at Spotify who helps form deal with major record companies. He orchestrated deals with Universal, Warner and others.