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TIL that Elon Musk was ousted as CEO of PayPal because he insisted on switching from Unix based infrastructure to Windows

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wGd7 TIL the tomato originated in South America and only started being grown in Italy around 1550.
V68k TIL that before John Adams died at the age of 90, his last words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” But Thomas Jefferson had died 5 hours before him at the age of 82, on July 4, 1826.
DOaJ TIL that Kenny, of South Park, has died a total of 97 times.
Bgbgy TIL the Lamport logical timestamp algorithm is used to determine order of events on distributed computer systems.
e0xX5 TIL that an episode of Peppa Pig that taught children that spiders were harmless and can’t hurt you was banned in Australia.