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TIL: That Rolex is a non-profit organisation, According to Swiss law, the brand is not obligated to declare whether any one has ever received a donation from them. They also receive major tax cuts due to being a charity.

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PYOyJ TIL the author of the first Macintosh compression program (StuffIt, 1987) wrote it while a student in US high school, and royalty checks paid for his MIT tuition
gMgL9 TIL that a man that went looking for the Titanic was only using that as a cover for a secret Cold War US Navy mission. The mission was competed 12 days earlier than expected, so with the time he had left he looked, and he found it!
MPY7 TIL At age 12 and 13, Curtis Jones and his sister, apparent victims of sexual abuse, killed one of their alleged victimizers. Child welfare knew of the abuse, but did nothing. After the murder, the state charged them as adults. Instead of getting help, they got 18 years in prison.
wLwkE TIL the USSR tried to domesticate moose for use in a Communist cavalry.
mx4xE TIL that the Hungarian crown has a bent cross on the top because somebody in the 17th century put the crown into an iron chest and closed it without having placed in it properly. The bent cross is used a symbol of Hungary since then.