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TIL if Forrest Gump had kept his Apple investment from the end of the film he would now be worth well over $7 billion.

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kOVv7 TIL that slavery is still legal in the United States, as punishment for a crime.
5aJn TIL that Mattel released an action figure of Stinkor, an anthropomorphic skunk supervillain of the He-Man universe, in 1985. Patchouli Oil was added to the molds to recreate the character’s unpleasant superpower. Toy collectors report the action figures continuing to reek after 30 years.
rEg4 TIL Christopher John Boyce was a convicted spy for the Soviet Union sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 1980, he escaped federal prison and was on the run for 1yr and 8 months, during which time he committed 17 bank robberies and studied aviation so he could eventually flee to the Soviet Union.
ZLlD TIL the Paris airport still runs on Windows 3.1
dvpd TIL in 1994, American Michael Fay was sentenced to caning in Singapore for theft and vandalism. Caning is a routine sentence in Singapore, but its unfamiliarity to Americans created a backlash. The number of strokes in Fay’s sentence was reduced from 6 to 4 after U.S. officials requested leniency