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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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j6kOR TIL that during the fall of Saigon in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military used the song White Christmas as a secret signal to begin evacuations before the city fell.
mpER TIL despite being illegal in most states, marijuana is the United States’ largest cash crop today with a value greater than that of corn and wheat combined.
eX9b TIL in 2010, Raytheon used prisoners to test a device called the “Active Denial System”, which fires an invisible heat-beam that is capable of causing unbearable pain
GAgRG TIL in 2016, a thunderstorm in Norway instantly killed over 300 reindeer
Ogx4 TIL that death row inmate Sean Sellers was executed despite a Court of Appeal ruling that he may be “factually innocent” but that “innocence alone is not sufficient to grant federal relief”