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TIL the CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006
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TIL that there was a 15mi long island that was charted on maps since 1774, only to discover in 2012 that it never existed in the first place.
pYAXe
TIL that the first man-made object that was send to space (above the Karman line) was German.
KYmvE
TIL Eminem was asleep at home when he won Best Original Song at the 2003 Academy Awards for "Lose Yourself" to become the first hip-hop artist to win an Oscar. Em said, "...I didn’t watch it, either. At that point in time, Hailie had to be at school early in the morning, so [I was sleeping]".
R7BD1
TIL that Joan d'Arc was tried, condemned and burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in May, 1430 . In the 1456 the very same church debunked her charges and denoted her as a martyr. Finally, in 1920 she was canonised and became a patron saint of France.
YnLG
TIL that when melting glass in space, zero gravity increases the viscosity and you can create glass with chemicals other than silica!! [x-post from r/glassblowing]