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Jp51 TIL: In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo at the age of 22 saying:“I don’t know what I could do with the money. I’d just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have.”
6EwoJ TIL about Cronus, the tarantula who whipped the Tory party in the United Kingdom. He is the pet of former chief whip Gavin Williamson. He kept Cronus positioned on his desk in his office in the Hous of Commons in order to intimidate MPs to vote with the government.
QJO1L TIL of Herman Francis Mark, an Austrian scientist and son of a Jew, who chose to flee Austria in 1938. He clandestinely bought platinum wire, worth roughly $50,000, which he bent into coat hangers while his wife knitted covers so that the hangers were able to be taken out of the country
rROl4 TIL Vin Diesel voiced Groot in the movie series "Guardians of the Galaxy" in 16 languages for the worldwide release of each movie. Athough it was only three words, he had to learn each native accent of every language he voiced.
R5DM1 TIL Quebec has an unofficial ‘Moving Day’ on July 1 when people across the province traditionally move apartments