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TIL Jeff Bezos started Amazon with a $300,000 investment - from his parents.

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O5Pa TIL of the “Great Stink”, where the smell of human waste in London was so powerful it affected the work of the House of Commons. Plans were made to evacuate but heavy rains ended the crisis.
E1Z4W TIL that there is a “cyborg enhancement” called North Sense which is essentially a semi-elaborate piercing that is implanted onto your chest, allowing you to feel when you face north. Almost like adding a new color to your vision, it gives you a strange new sense.
y0AV TIL that before her death at 35, Harriet Cole, a maid at Drexel’s College of Medicine, willed her body to Dr. Rufus Weaver, and requested it be used to benefit science. Weaver proceeded with the complete dissection and mounting of her nervous system.
78kKr TIL about the Judas Goat Technique. Judas goats are captured, sterilised, radio-collared and then re-released to associate with and reveal the location of other feral goats in the area, sparing their own lives in the process.
X05lR TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1928. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married to two different women in different states unbeknownst to each other.