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TIL Bill Gates wrote his first book, The Road Ahead, in 1995. Gates predicted video on demand and computers that will fit in your pocket, and was optimistic about the rise of digital agents, how internet will affect the structure of cities

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xBBB TIL 14-year-old kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck, while being held captive, Googled himself and found the website his parents set up for his search. He left an anonymous message there – “How long are you planning to look for your son?” – but no one knew he had been the author until after his rescue.
yVow8 TIL: That after watching males succeed at a series of puzzling tasks, female birds traded their simple-minded beaus for more cognitively competent partners.
9YK5D TIL despite its name, the Spanish flu did not originated in Spain. The label stuck because Spanish newspapers were the first to report the outbreak. Spain was a neutral nation during WWI, so its journalists did not face the same censorship as those working in countries involved in the conflict.
7rJb TIL Two different people have committed suicide after being interviewed by Nancy Grace. One shot herself, the other set herself on fire.
GwZ7 TIL the winner of Tour de France has been positive for doping 40 times in the past 53 years.