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TIL J.K. Rowling was the 1st & is still the only author to become a billionaire

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yVYdw TIL that modern windows are usually made from float glass which is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin. This method was pioneered in the 1950’s by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff.
MeJ8W TIL of Bulgaria’s role during World War II as a part of the Axis. Did not participate in the war vs the Soviet Union, reluctant to send Jews to the Holocaust, had no resistance to the incoming Red Army to “liberate” them in Sept. 1944, and ended the war with slightly more land!
WkJ1B TIL Playboy Hugh Hefner's young son, Cooper, teaches a course called "New Landscape of Media" at Chapman University. Hefner is also on the Board of Directors for Children Of The Night, an organization that has been dedicated to fighting human trafficking and child prostitution
85jb TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was very strong, and could bend a horseshoe as if it was made of lead
j70R TIL that during the newyork draft riots of 1863, the New York Times defended their building using Gatling guns against the rioters.