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TIL that starting with one red paper-clip, a man was able in 14 ensuing trades to get a house.

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ZjkY TIL of Patrice Désilets, the lead creator of the Assassin’s Creed Series, who was fired from Ubisoft twice, with the second after he started work at a new game stuido. Ubisoft bought the studio and fired him for no legitimate reason.
R5gRa TIL: The first written use of the name "Jessica" appears in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The bard likely changed (anglicised) the spelling from the biblical name "Iscah"
jb1p TIL that three Stanford “rocket scientist” mechanical engineering PhD students invented a disease-detecting breath analyzer and were approved to test their prototype on human patients – all in under one year, an almost unfathomable feat in the medical device realm
Y7k8G TIL the banana tree is actually a herb.
b94Ma Til cavemen hardly existed as very few Stone Age people inhabited caves. Most being nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes living in a variety of temporary structures, such as tents and wooden huts. Caves just have the best preserved