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TIL Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since 2007, Saving 6 Million Lives

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nbmG TIL Burger King had a promo where if you deleted 10 Facebook friends you’d receive a free Whopper.
nxWG TIL that if you plant an apple seed, the resulting tree will not produce the same kinds of apples. In fact, they will taste significantly different and may be unsuitable for human consumption.
7rLxb TIL that on 7 May 1946 a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was established. The company is now called Sony - one of the world's leading technology companies.
Lk4kP TIL of the German general Ferdinand Schörner, who at the end of World War II abandoned his army group to fly to Austria and personally surrender to the Americans, all to avoid capture by the Soviets. The Americans handed him to the Soviets.
N5W6 TIL that flags are flown at half mast when someone important dies to allow “the invisible flag of death” to fly at the top of the mast, signifying death’s prescence, power, and prominence