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TIL Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, has been the CEO of uTorrent.

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p8bwp TIL of Francis Salvador – elected to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in 1774, he’s considered the first member of the Jewish faith to hold elective office in America. Killed in a joint Loyalist/Cherokee ambush in 1776, he became the first Jewish soldier to die for the Patriot cause.
ykgp TIL that a software company buried a $1000 prize deep within its Terms Of Service just to see if anyone reads them. It took 5 months and 3000 sales for someone to respond
MeKaa TIL the phrase "dung-wet" (meaning very wet) was considered "obsolete" by the Oxford English Dictionary in the 1st edition (1897) but the phrase was unexpectedly found on Twitter, having survived to present day by speakers of Carribean English.
yVyap TIL that during WW1 the British government outlawed the act of buying somebody else a drink with the “No treating order”
epnEE TIL An estimated 1-3% of the population is virtually allergic to much of their food, especially processed or canned food and may not know it: Histamine Intolerance: the Current State of the Art