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TIL that Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and famous for his exuberant personality, shouted so much that he had to get surgery for his vocal cord.

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5YvQQ TIL that food waste in America is 80 billion lbs a year
R5Le1 TIL during the filming of Blue Collar, in response to Richard Pryor's over-lengthy improvisation, Harvey Keitel flung an ashtray directly into the camera to deliberately ruin the take. Pryor and his bodyguard then proceeded to get into a fist fight with Keitel before the director broke up the fight.
LArd TIL that an estimated 2 million German women were raped during the later part of WWII. The majority of the rapes took place in the Soviet occupation zone. This is considered by some to be the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”.
V8kZ TIL players of an online game called Foldit resolved the structure of an enzyme in just three weeks.
xVGgw TIL Lolilta is the last Southern Resident Orca in captivity at Miami Seaquarium. Captured in 1970, it is thought that her ~92 year old mother, L-95, is still alive in the wild with the rest of Lolita's L-Pod Family. Southern Resident Orca stay with their Mother's & pod their whole life