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TIL that Noah Glass was one of Twitter's Early Founders

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nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
omjY TIL that in La Paz, Bolivia, there are isolated “hotel rooms” where alcoholics can, for a small fee, go to drink themselves to death without fear of interruption. Aptly, they are known as “Elephant Graveyards”.
R7Jg9 TIL that in 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji (????) the Word of the Year.
rRYWd TIL Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., was the first African American astronaut. The project he worked on would go on to become the International Space Station. He died in the backseat of his plane while teaching a cadet how to fly 50 years ago this past Friday (December 8, 1967). He was 32 years old.
BrKXW No, you didn't win a gift card and no we aren't running a contest/giveaway of any kind. It's a scam.