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TIL for Bill Gates’ wedding, to insure his and his wifes privacy for the day of their wedding, Bill rented every hotel room at a hotel and chartered every helicopter close by on the Hawaiian island Lanai.

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E1BjV TIL the other man in the balcony with Lincoln the night he was assassinated was so consumed with guilt over not having prevented it that he slowly went mad and eventually stabbed his wife to death and tried to kill his children before he was committed to a mental asylum for the rest of his life.
aw5PZ TIL Dr. John Kellogg who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium starting in 1876 believed that most ailments resulted from unclean bowels full of toxins from undigested food. To that end, he administered enemas with a device capable of running fifteen gallons of water through a patient's bowel in seconds.
16XZr TIL Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds artwork is made of 100 million porcelain seeds, handcrafted by 1,600+ artisans from Jingdezhen, China, a city known as the "Porcelain Capital". The seeds represent optimism during difficult times.
BgJyk TIL about Marina Abramović's 1974 performance piece Rhythm 0. She stood still for six hours and allowed the audience to use her body without consequences. They could use any of 72 objects on her, from harmless to dangerous ones. The interactions started gentle but quickly escalated into violence.
nloB TIL that the world’s fastest internet connection is owned by a 75-year-old swedish woman, the internet connection is up to 40 Gbps