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TIL that FedEx's Founder kept the company alive by gambling the company's last $5k in Vegas

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W7EGX TIL That companies AMD and Nvidia who are competitors, do not fabricate their own semiconductor chips, and actually hire the same company for fabrication, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
gMy5L TIL about the Stoned Ape Theory, which suggests that the consumption of magic mushrooms by early humans is one of the factors that led to the rapid increase of the brain/cranium size.
5YBrr TIL that in 1876, James Garfield, future 20th President of the United States, developed a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem that was published in New-England Journal of Education.
b9Db4 TIL while native citizens of the small European principality of Monaco cannot gamble in their own physical casinos, they can legally gamble on online ones
EgDYX TIL about Joyce Vincent and English woman whose death went unnoticed for more than 2 years. Her skeletal remains were found in her bedsit flat with the TV still on and wrapped Christmas presents surrounding her.