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TIL that Ted Jorgenson abandoned his son shortly after his birth. A reporter managed to find Ted, who owns a bike shop, and asked about his son. He had no clue who his son was, and upon refreshing his memory Ted asked if he's still alive. His son ended up being the richest man on earth, Jeff Bezos.

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7rax7 TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
N7e58 TIL Despite the term 'blood donation', the blood market is actually a multi billion dollar industry and blood given for free by donors is then sold on the open market for profit for as much as $600 per pint, a cost passed down to patients.
XEx6X New study recommends drinking coffee after breakfast, and not before. The research has found a strong coffee immediately upon waking after a disrupted night of sleep can impair the body's glucose response.
wL5P1 TIL that in C. S. Lewis' Narnia the god Bacchus would sometimes visit, turning all the streams to wine and everyone in the forest would have a drunken party for weeks.
J968 TIL that due to religious reasons, Manhattan is encircled by a constantly maintained, continuous string of clear wire.