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TIL Larry Ellison founder of oracle owns 98% of the sixth biggest Hawaiian island, Lānaʻi

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GAe5E TIL the record for most number of leaves grown on a clover is 63
myZE TIL that the first person to perform a cardiac catheterization was not allowed to perform the procedure on a patient, so he decided to perform it on himself and then walk all the way to the X-ray room with the catheter still in his arm to prove that the tube had reached his heart.
aVDJ TIL the word “slave” is derived from “Slav” since many Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages
865L TIL in order to capture a genuine look of surprise on Hans Gruber’s face, Alan Rickman was dropped one second early at the end of Die Hard.
jNWeX TIL learned IBM had to change the name of its dominant chess computer Deep Thought to Deep Blue after people started calling it Deep Throat