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TIL After Tesla redesigned Edison company’s motors, he asked for 50,000 Edison promised him. Edison replied “Tesla, you don’t understand american humor”. Tesla immediately resigned

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OoQ06 TIL when explorers first saw the Giant Sequoia trees in Northern California, they named the biggest one "The Discovery Tree," and immediately made plans to cut it down. The felled tree was used to advertise as a tourist attraction with the tree's stump used as a dance floor.
7rvbr TIL: When the Soviets attempted to poison the president of Afganistan in 1979, he unwittingly survived the assassination by drinking Coca Cola, as the acidic drink diluted the poison
pxX8 TIL that on 23 August 1989, around 2 million people joined hands in a human chain that stretched 600 kilometres across the 3 Baltic countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. They did this to protest their countries forced inclusion in the Soviet Union.
oBQo TIL that the oldest school in the world was founded between 143-141 BC during the rule of the Han Dynasty in Chengdu, China, and is still in use today
wLrBW TIL Anjelica Huston was 38 years old when she played John Cusack's mother in "The Grifters"