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TIL that in 2011, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm were found guilty of colluding with each other to repress employee wages.

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Ooa1R TIL For decades, Hulda Regehr Clark claimed to have the cure for cancer and made millions of dollars. She died of cancer in 2009.
EgKVW TIL ManO'War, considered one of the greatest racehorses in history was the father of triple crown winner War Admiral. Thru his daughters and grandaughter lineage came triple crown winners Seattle Slew and American Pharoah.
Br7PK TIL 200 years before Galileo, Bishop Bradwardine of Canterbury and other Oxford scholars developed "The Law of Falling Bodies" and discovered many pre-calculus equations ahead of their time. Bradwardine also developed theories on memory, as well as theology which inspired early protestants.
9wOKr TIL that Harrison Okene (a cook) survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken ship by finding an air pocket
Brvob TIL of Nicholas Winton, a man who rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. He died at age 106 in 2015.