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TIL Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom Video Communications, got rejected visa 8 times. before he got approved to move to the US in the mid-1990s.

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BBDK TIL skin care products have virtually no effect on skin elasticity, since the protein elastin cannot penetrate the skin layer.
neV0o TIL in 1962 a single missing hyphen in it's code caused the Mariner 1's backup guiding system to fail, leading to the destruction of the spacecraft. This one missing piece of code caused over $130 million dollars in damages.
nemR9 TIL the Gulf Stream has such an effect on temperatures in Western Europe, that it puts them in a completely different climate to other places at the same latitude around the world. Parts of Canada that have polar bears are on the same latitude as Scotland.
eee6 TIL two Christian monks smuggled silkworms out of China in bamboo canes. Those silkworms were used to give the Byzantine Empire a trade monopoly in Europe, which became the foundation of their economy for the next 650 years.
D1lGP TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language.