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TIL that at the time of Steve Jobs’ death, Microsoft flew their flags at half-staff throughout their respective headquarters and campuses.

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6PlQ TIL On this day 55 years ago NASA was created by Dwight D. Eisenhower
PYnpG TIL to reconstruct the Great Pyramid of Giza today, it would require about $5 billion, 5 years, 1,500 to 2,000 workers, and 2.3 million stones weighing 3 tons each, according to Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect who has helped create a virtual model of the ancient construction system.
VBwm0 TIL that in 1938 the Chinese government deliberately destroyed the dikes of the Yellow River in order to cause a flood with the aim of slowing the Imperial Japanese Army and in the process killed up to 900,000 Chinese civilians, created millions of refugees and destroyed thousands of villages
GY7lN TIL in 1970 a heat sensitive call button enabled a fire to call an elevator to its floor killing both occupants.
apob TIL Nazi party member, John Rabe, saved 250,000 people from the Rape of Nanking.