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TIL that Victoria’s Secret founder sold it for just $4m. (It’s now worth more than $5bn.) He then tried to start a children’s retail store, and went bankrupt. He jumped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge at age 46 .

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0de4v TIL over 30% of the US population lives in four states: California, Texas, Florida, New York.
kJ5XE TIL of the Apollo 15 postal covers scandal. The astronauts of Apollo 15 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon. All three were paid/bribed $7k each by stamp dealers, got busted, and never flew in space again.
E1rnd TIL bout Emma Haruka Iwao, a Japanese computer scientist who this year broke the record of most digits of Pi calculated, at 31.4 trillion.
rwZw TIL that shortening is called shortening because it creates shorter strands of gluten in dough, which in turn makes the dough less stretchy.
9YEbX TIL that the "tennis girl with the arse" from the 70s actually has a name, and she is Fiona Walker