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TIL Elon Musk called Apple a ‘graveyard’ for fired Tesla staff stating: “If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”

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J1aR4 TIL about Mordecai 'three finger' Brown. A MLB player who had his pitching hand mangled in a farm accident. The injury gave him a unique grip on the baseball that gave him an unusual amount of spin on the ball. He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
NWPJ TIL Iceland is the only NATO country with no standing army.
YpZYP TIL that in 1980 Glenn Seaborg turned several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold by removing protons and neutrons from the bismuth at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
womyP TIL that the average male will produce roughly 525 billion sperm cells over a lifetime. That's around five times the number of people who have ever lived.
BKnx TIL that Andrew Jackson carried a locket with a picture of his deceased wife, Rachel Jackson, and propped it up in front of his bed every night so that she would be the last thing he saw when falling asleep and the first thing when he woke up.