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TIL that Startup Founders are 7x more likely to have had a near death experience than the general population (46% vs 7%)

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Rnxj TIL: Platypus DNA contains reptilian, avian, and mammalian lineages.
1aydO TIL that, despite scathing reviews, every successive film in the Resident Evil franchise has made more money globally than the previous film (with the exception of Resident Evil: Retribution). The series has made more than $1 billion total and 4 out of 6 of the films opened at #1 in North America.
lobpK TIL That Medival Europeans thought that a brownstone supposedly found in old toads heads could cure almost any poison and the stones were often made into highly prized jewelry. These stones were in fact fossils dating from the Jurassic/Cretaceous period and had no curative properties.
dNwK TIL A woman married 25 years who quickly divorced her husband without telling him she had just won the lottery was forced to pay him all of her winnings
49M5 TIL that Lisa Robertson, a Qantas flight attendant, lost her job after having sex with Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort, M) in a business class lavatory