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TIL that Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, typed 313 books word for word to distribute them online free of cost. Today, the project has over 70.000 free eBooks.

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9YnZp TIL: Knack managed to initially outsell Super Mario 3D World in the UK.
lon7A TIL Fedex nearly went bankrupt in its early days - its founder took the company's last $5000 to Las Vegas and won enough money through blackjack to cover their $24000 fuel bill.
7rQwO TIL of cardiac surgeon Michael DeBakey, who developed MASH hospitals and many new surgical techniques, including the first treatment for aortic dissection. In 2005, he suffered an aoertic dissection and his life was saved by the surgery he invented.
R7eWl TIL about Charles Poland, a school bus driver who literally died trying to protect the students on his bus from a violent kidnapper.
mBAY TIL Pennsylvania still charges its citizens an 18% tax on alcohol to pay for damages of the 1936 Johnstown flood.