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TIL Bill Gates told his University professors that he would become a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.

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GypG TIL there is a carnivorous plant big enough to drown and digest rats.
0dZXp TIL that for a brief time in the 50’s, there’s was a “Atomic Energy Lab” science kit marketed for children that contained radioactive uranium, and other questionable kits in subsequent years.
Oore4 TIL in 1991 it was discovered that the heart has its "little brain" or "intrinsic cardiac nervous system." This "heart brain" is composed of approximately 40,000 neurons that are alike neurons in the brain, meaning that the heart has its own nervous system.
aoAZ TIL Black Beauty wasn’t written for children; it was an appeal to the public to stop abusive practices like the use of the checkreins and overworking horses.
XE7Kr TIL over a million people live in underground nuclear bunkers beneath the streets of Beijing.