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TIL that the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has fathered 100+ children in 12 countries via sperm donation.

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rRA11 TIL that sound forensics make it possible to reconstruct speech or other sound by watching leaves of a plant, earbud speakers or a potato-chip bag with a camera, even through soundproof windows.
kO8Jm TIL that when Frank Zappa's first son was born the hospital refused to register the name Dweezil, so Frank named him Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa, after a few of his musician friends, and just called him Dweezil until his son was 5 and it was changed legally.
78Qdp TIL that anyone can start an online business about anything
pY6ZO TIL the first video on youtube "me at the zoo" was actually a d*ck joke and it went over my head as a youth
6EJ67 TIL the Tsar Bomba, the largest ever nuclear bomb detonated, was originally designed to yield 100 megatons. However, Sakharov was very apprehensive about the amount of radiation it would create, and therefore replaced the bombs innovative uranium layers with lead, halving the size of the blast.