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TIL that in July 2011, Apple Inc. had more cash in the bank than the US government.

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16DYd TIL that in 1928, millionaire Howard Hughes set a bizarre rule for his staff: they had to handle everything he touched with tissues to avoid germs. Later in life, Hughes became so obsessed with cleanliness that he lived in sealed rooms, wore tissue boxes on his feet, and stored his urine in jars.
d84Kr TIL A bank robber hired decoys on Craigslist and escaped down a creek on a Inner tube
grgrD TIL the Law of Æthelberht, dating to the early 7th century, is the first known document written in Old English. It’s a legal code and the earliest surviving example of the English language in written form.
gLe4 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth’s crust in the 1970’s. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
N7Ww6 TIL during the Golden Age of Piracy, women sometimes became pirates by disguising themselves as men in an effort to take advantage of freedom and rights that men could only enjoy. Anne and Mary were two famous female pirates of that time who fell in love with each others' disguised manly appearance!