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

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bQkp TIL that divers in 1900 discovered an ancient Greek shipwreck with an odd-looking bronze device on board. The device was later determined to be the world’s oldest analog computer, dating back to the 1st century B.C.E., thousands of years before similar technologies would be re-discovered
M7N88 TIL DNA scientist James Watson's first interest was bird watching and he entered the University of Chicago at 15 under the gifted youngster program. He initially to become an ornithology curator but then he read Erwin Schrödinger's book: What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
KYll9 TIL the strange case of the famous writer of crime stories Agatha Christie vanishing for 11 days in 1926 at the top of her career, allegedly for loss of memory
0dwr1 TIL that Harry Houdini had skepticism of anything mystical and had intense anger at miracle workers, spiritualists, and mediums that preyed on vulnerable people.
N7GW8 TIL that China’s parliament has about 100 billionaires