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TIL Stanford & Harvard grads have built more $1Bn businesses than grads of the 10 next-best universities combined.

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oBWgo TIL in 1900, when submarines were being introduced to navies, Admiral Arthur Wilson called them underhanded, threatening to hang enemy sub crews as pirates. So, in 1914, when Max Horton commanded Britain's first sub engagement against the Germans, he ordered his crew to fly a Jolly Roger.
9wPKr TIL that not only Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez are second cousins, but that they were unaware of their relationship until they started shooting Desperado.
QJlEa TIL that Febreze is actually odorless as it simply kills smells but people don't associate lack if smell with being clean. Once fake 'clean' scents were added to the formula, sales skyrocketed.
kJWn5 TIL about Frazer Lockhart and the Rocky Flats Cleanup Team. Rocky Flats was a nuclear weapons production facility with enough radioactive waste to fill 90 miles of rail cars. Frazer Lockhart, a DoE employee cleaned it up $30 billion under budget and 60 years ahead of schedule.
XEbxX TIL: From the 60s until program retirement in 1992, the US military kept ready some cannon-fired nuclear weapons which could fit in any standard 155mm Howitzer. Each M45 AFAP round cost at least $1.25 million. AFAP stood for Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile.