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TIL in Feb 2006, Steve Jobs personally called and gifted a 16 year old ten iPods, an iMac and a $10,000 music gift certificate when he bought the iTunes Store’s one billionth song.

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78nr TIL Cuba has a literacy rate of 99.8%, higher than any other country in the world.
a8peZ TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic pink flamingo, died of Lewy Body Dementia. The same disease that took Robin Williams.
6V1J TIL Otto von Bismarck predicted World War I twenty years before it happend, and Germany’s downfall and defeat, almost to the month
NXkYN TIL Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted tens of millions of trees in Kenya. She faced imprisonment and violent opposition for her environmental and pro-democracy activism
pYOWQ Today I learned that 1 billion people in the world suffer from sleep disordered breathing.