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TIL Amancio Ortega, the 6th richest person in the world, has only given three interviews ever. He also refuses to wear a tie or fancy clothes and wears a simple blazer and gray pants to work every day.

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adLJ TIL Homeland Security convinced a man to fly to Puerto Rico to try and dig up $1M worth of cocaine that he’d heard was buried there. After he was unsuccessful (twice) they just dug it up themselves and arrested him when they tried to give it to him.
OGYKX TIL The US Geologic Survey analyzes twitter data that can often identify earthquakes faster than their own sensors as well as filter out false positives from their sensors.
W0P4 TIL that the movie Scarface has won NO awards and has even been nominated for a Razzie.
DQXmP TIL the probability of a blue lobster existing is about one in two million
JYQwv TIL Alan Turing, WW2 codebreaker and father of modern computer science, was also a world-class distance runner of his time. He ran a 2:46 marathon in 1949 (2:36 won an olympic gold in 1948). His local running club discovered him when he overtook them repeatedly while out running alone for relaxation