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TIL A Stanford professor became a billionaire by investing in the ideas of students (googles first check)

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QJd4d TIL that John Pierre-Adams, a French footballer, has been in a coma since 1982 due to a fault caused by an anesthesiologist during a surgery. His wife continues to care for him and refuses to consider euthanasia.
p87kN TIL that, in the 1980's, Israel operated a beach resort in Sudan, which was actually a Mossad front allowing them to evacuate Sudanese and Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
698w7 TIL In 2011 the 7'2" WNBA center Margo Dydek died after suffering a massive heart attack at the age of 37. She was pregnant with her third child. She had retired after playing 11 seasons.
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