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TIL that the co-founder of Paypal, Max Levchin, coded non-stop for 5 days without sleep and then finished the product 1 hour before he received $4.5 million in funding

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wL9lJ TIL that during the pre-production of "The Handmaid's Tale" tv series author Margaret Atwood (whose wrote the novel) was consulted about the updates to some of the dialogue (the original novel was written in 1985). During the discussion Atwood was forced to ask "What's a carpet muncher?".
nL69 TIL that the city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees.
16xQX TIL wolves in the US state of Wisconsin were responsible for a 25% reduction in deer-vehicle collisions after being reintroduced into the environment there. By killing deer near these areas, or simply intimidating them into staying away road, wolves could keep the animals far from cars.
oB7k8 TIL in 2002, a Coptic monk in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre moved his chair just a bit to get away from the sun. This caused a fistfight between Ethiopian and Coptic monks and eleven people ended up being hospitalised.
woPvY TIL in the 1920s to 1950s, there were Pretty Ankle competitions in England where women lined up and were judged by their ankles. In 1954, the winner of one competition was awarded £4.