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TIL in 1985 a private party sold 1.5 million shares of Apple causing a 12-year low. This helped Steve Jobs in a proposal that Apple oust CEO Gil Amelio and he become the replacement. It was later revealed that the privately sold 1.5 million shares (over $60B today) was sold by Steve Jobs.

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Avd TIL there is a Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams who missed almost five full baseball seasons fighting as a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War and still managed to hit 521 home runs.
nmnB TIL the first car to use a rear-view mirror was driven by inaugural Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun to see the cars catching up behind him
J0xk TIL that when translated into modern English, The word Mortgage literally means “death pledge”. Mort - from the French meaning “Death” and Gage - from Old English meaning “Pledge”
j69OR TIL Egyptian hieroglyphs from 2690 BCE constitute the earliest known complete sentence and is found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (2nd Dynasty), Umm El Qa'ab. The sentence refers to the entombed king's father and translates as, "He has united the Two Lands for his son, Dual King Peribsen."
p75N TIL in 2004, an activist from The Yes Men falsely claiming to represent Dow Chemicals was interviewed by BBC, claiming Dow had agreed to a $12 billion settlement for victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India chemical disaster (in which 3,000 peopl died). Dow lost $2 billion in the ensuing stock selloff.