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TIL that Mexico has created a marine reserve large than Greece to help protect wildlife. The reserve will have all fishing and hotel developments banned in the area. The aim is to help replenish fish stocks and save animals like the Vaquita, of which there are only dozens left.

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RYX1 TIL Paul Newman, founder of the “Newman’s Own” brand of food products, established a policy that all proceeds, after taxes, would be donated to charity. As of 2015, the franchise has donated in excess of $460 million.
X05Pj TIL that Chris Pettit, a lawyer from San Antonio, may have defrauded clients out of more than $100m by opening trust accounts in their names and transferring settlement funds to his own accounts
1vn7 TIL a 120-meter-deep, 17th-Century salt mine in Romania has been converted to the world’s largest salt mining museum and amusement park, complete with a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, light shows on the rock walls and boat rides on a subterranean lake.
6EQXJ TIL Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer used to make internal videos to show to the employees of Microsoft, one of them involved Ballmer dressing up as Dr. Evil and Gates as Austin Powers.
lRRr TIL Ronald Wayne was a co-founder of Apple. He owned 10% of the company, but sold his stock for $800 on April 12, 1976 (today, worth nearly 60 billion). He later accepted $1,500 to forfeit any future claims against Apple.