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TIL: When Apple was going public and assigning shares, Jobs cut out several employees. Wozniak then gave some of his personal shares to them, because he believed it was the right thing to do.

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L4ZP TIL a teen needing a heart transplant was rejected in part because of his history of juvenile detention. A media outcry resulted in his getting a new heart, and later he died fleeing after a carjacking/burglary/shooting spree.
neQjW TIL in 1974 newscaster Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live television by shooting herself in the head with a .38-caliber revolver.
6EJkX TIL a study found that Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian rank among the highest for fake followers on social media, nearly 50%.
yVBMV TIL about Stephenson 2-18 being the largest star in the universe at 10 billion times larger than our sun.
dKK TIL: Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, flew 300 combat missions over Europe in WWII, finishing his career as a Brigadier General