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TIL that Shaq was an early investor in Google.

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jNygn TIL that a 2-Ton Elephant escaped from a farm in New York's Catskills mountains and roamed its forests for 2 weeks in November 1957 before it was peacefully recaptured 7 miles away.
VM4wG TIL in 1590 there was a Hungarian noblewoman named Elizabeth Báthory, aka Countess Dracula. She has the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer of all time. The highest number of victims cited during her trial was 650, most of them servant girls aged 10 to 14 years
r7Xw TIL that a German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.
dnrj TIL research indicates that you are less likely to maintain motivation to achieve a goal if you announce that goal to others (Link to PDF)
WkXm4 TIL in the 1862 Greek referendum to elect a new king, 1,763 voted for "a king", 482 voted "long live the three great powers", 93 voted "a republic", 3 people voted for Giuseppe Garibaldi and one person voted in favour of King Otto, the previous king who was just deposed and exiled