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TIL Netflix’s origin story “Reed Hasting came up with the idea for Netflix when he was hit with a $40 late fee on the movie Apollo 13” is BS and just a marketing tool.

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JYmpm TIL, The street artist Banksy extensively copied the style and work of the French street artist Blek le rat.
p897p TIL: Benito Mussolini ruled constitutionally for 3 years before he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a dictatorship
OMkX TIL A Soviet probe, “Luna 15”, crashed into the surface of the moon while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were still on it.
aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape
J1XX1 TIL humans were thought to be the only host species susceptible to leprosy until cases were identified in nine-banded armadillos and now Eurasian red squirrels in the UK have been added as a reservoir. 200,000 new human cases of leprosy a year are still recorded but the exact mechanism is unknown.