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ADjnn TIL the record for largest single Walmart transaction in history was performed by Shaquille O’Neal, only after his credit card was declined on the first attempt.
dnwE TIL the Surgeon General of the United States is, by law, a 3-star vice admiral and wears a uniform similar to those from the US Navy.
aAey TIL that for unknown reasons, during a bidding war with a consortium of tech firms for Nortel’s 6,000 patents, Google bid $1,902,160,540, then $2,614,972,128, and eventually $3.14159 billion (references to Brun’s constant, Meissel–Mertens constant, and pi)
LNOd TIL in 1958 Ford designed the Nucleon, a car powered by a uranium fission steam engine. It was the inspiration for the “Atomic V8” engines in the Fallout games.
bbj9 TIL there are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can’t be cultivated because tsetse flys keep killing farm animals.