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TIL To acquire their first users, Pinterest Co-Founder Ben Silbermann would run around Apple shops changing all browsers to Pintrest, before they caught him and kicked him out.

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JY5km TIL there's a gene, creatively named Indy, short for "I'm Not Dead Yet", in fruit flies, owing to the phenomenon where some of it's mutations almost double the lifespan of said host.
X9Mj TIL A sleeping Killer Whale (Orca) pod (approx. 6-30 whales in a pod) breathes in unison - they form a tight circle, then surface for air and re-submerge as one, while sleeping!
K1xw TIL after a female pedestrian in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. He smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop.
gML9 TIL in 1972, an insane Geologist wielding a hammer attacked Michelangelo’s masterpiece Pietà statue while shouting, “I am Jesus Christ — risen from the dead!” He cause severe damage before being wrestled to the ground by Museum patrons, including American Sculptor Bob Cassilly
x4Y5 TIL DuPont has been poisoning the town of Parkersburg, WV for over 30 years and has been covering it up.