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TIL Zuckerberg purchased the houses next door to his home in order to lease those homes to the people he purchased them from and to avoid the houses being marketed as “next door to Mark Zuckerberg.”

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5YVYk TIL that people who acquire blindness still have visual dreams, but people who have been blind since birth have auditory dreams.
WkAxL TIL in 1969 that the straight part of Niagara Falls was run dry after 28,000 tons of rocky fill was dropped into a cofferdam upstream, stopping the flow of water—nearly 76,000 gallons every second.
0woWy TIL the Russian Empire we’re in a position to go to war with Britain if they intervened in the US Civil War. This Russo-American ‘alliance’ may have saved the Union.
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
n91G TIL that about 50% of the earth’s heat is generated from radioactive decay from elements such as uranium and thorium