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

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ADLEw TIL the govenor of California from 1939-1943 was an atheist
gMPYb TIL If anyone in a bonobo group, male or female, is feeling stressed, anxious, or irritated, someone will run over and give them a ‘bonobo handshake’ also known as social sexual contact.
nedOr TIL that the correlation between kids spending time indoors reading books and poor eyesight is due to Vitamin D deficiency.
6EldW TIL that the woman that plays the not out, but obvious, lesbians from Pitch Perfect is actually Esther Dean. A hit singer, songwriter, producer and actor that has earned the name, “the song factory”
ADeB4 TIL: The mother of Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table) traveled 1200 miles with her son to a university in Moscow to plead for her son's admission, only to get rejected. The mother then rode with Mendeleev another 400 miles to Saint Petersburg University and got him admission.