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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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p8QEQ TIL MHV and FIPV, both belonging to the family of Coronaviruses, have been reverse engineerable since 2003. The key feature of the method is an interspecies chimeric MHV that serves as the recipient.
0nGA TIL that Hebrew’s return to regular usage is unique in that there are no other examples of a “dead” language subsequently acquiring several million native speakers, and no other examples of a sacred language becoming a national language with millions of “first language” speakers.
mxkGP TIL that when the Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender in WW2, his speech was too formal and vague for the general populace to understand. Many listeners were left confused and it took some people hours, some days, to understand that Japan had, in fact, surrendered.
yV0ep TIL Miles “Tim” Horton, founder of eponymous Canadian donut chain, died in car crash at 44 while DUI
69AAY TIL: In 2011, a UK man was legally banned from having sex due to his IQ of 48, the judge stating that despite his sex drive, he didn't have the mental capacity to understand health risks and should not have sex with anyone. This is legal due to the Court of Protection in Britain.