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TIL Bill and Melinda Gates made a site that provides free textbooks for college students 100% legally

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PYL9n TIL rapper Bizzy Bone, who was abducted by his step-father as a child, was reunited with his mother after a neighbor recognized a photo of him shown at the end of the 1983 broadcast of the TV movie ‘Adam’ which was based on the abduction and murder of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh’s son.
Z8pgD TIL that female Photuris lightning bugs mimic the flash signals of regular female Photinus lightning bugs in order to attract the male Photinus bugs and eat them.
vN4D TIL that the Earth likely has an underground ocean between the upper and lower mantle, with as much water as all the outer oceans combined
QR56 TIL even though Google’s self-driving cats have logged over 700,000 miles, they have yet to overcome the navigational hurdles of snow, heavy rain, open parking lots, multilevel parking garages, construction zones, and when the sun is directly behind a traffic light.
A8jw TIL that in addition to upper and lowercase, there’s also camel case. It’sWhenYouWriteLikeThis.