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TIL Elon Musk was ousted from Paypal when he wanted to move everything from Unix to Microsoft.

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DQxvp TIL in 2020 Poland banned all flights from Andorra due to Covid. They later rescinded the ban upon realizing Andorra does not have an airport.
J1Lov TIL The first air raid in WWII on the German capital was carried out on the night of June 7, 1940, by a lone French Farman F.223.4 long-range bomber nicknamed "Jules Verne". The crew manually dropped bombs, primarily targeting the Siemens factory, and successfully returned to their base in France.
e0Jrn TIL that after Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide before he was sentenced to prison, he was still employed in that position. His widow successfully applied for survivors benefits and received over $1 Million as he died while in office.
o6OY TIL that your chances of upward social mobility in the USA are the smallest in the Deep South.
gN1W TIL Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his 'death beam’. He warned the management never to open it without taking proper precautions to avoid detonation. After his death in 1943, the box was pried open & they found nothing but a bunch of old lab components