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TIL despite making up only 1% of the American population, people of Hindu Indian origin account for 40% of Silicon Valley startups and make up 5 % of Scientists, Engineers and Software Specialists

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9YLbB TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who saved the world from possible nuclear annihilation by breaking protocol, when on October 5th 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland falsely detected a level 5 ICBM attack due to the rising moon.
GVp5 TIL From 1998-2010, hedge funds earned $379 billion in fees, while the investors in them earned $70 billion in gains.
l7G6r TIl that River Phoenix was born with the last name of Bottom.
KO0kB TIL an octopus named Otto caused a power outage at the Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany by climbing to the edge of his tank and squirting a jet of water at a 2,000-watt spotlight that was annoying him.
KOe46 TIL of a band called Tout-à-Coup Jazz. Tout-à-Coup's guitarist Thomas Sankara became the President of Burkina Faso in 1983 before being killed in a military coup organised by the singer of Tout-à-Coup.