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R5Rk6 TIL - An Italian man from Milan, Xu Xiangshun (his legal Chinese name) ended up in China's countryside when he was around 3 and pretty much adopted the full Chinese peasant lifestyle. He doesn't know any Italian or have a clue about its culture.
oRd1R TIL After Microsoft redirected the original Excel project from MS-DOS to the Apple Macintosh, lead developer Doug Klunder temporarily left the company to work in California's lettuce fields. He later returned to Microsoft and completed the project.
KO9gJ TIL that the sharpest object known to man is a tungsten needle that tapers down to the thickness of ONE ATOM.
neMOb TIL African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer of any ethnic group in the United States
40Aw TIL: In Wyoming it is a misdemeanor to disclose the final sale price of real property (house, farm, etc). There is an effort to change this but it is being resisted by state politicians, with one stating that it “would show what a dummy I was when I bought my house”