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TIL that if Microsoft had kept the $150 million investment they made in Apple in 1997, it would be worth $21.9 billion today

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0w0N TIL Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 died in WWII
nMPP TIL the first porn movie is from Argentina. It was produced in Argentina in 1907, and includes possibly the first use of extreme close-ups of genitalia.
W7VLA TIL that aside vitamin D, the human skin also makes serotonin directly when exposed to sunlight
jN4lN TIL scientists discovered the specific molecule in bees' royal jelly (which worker bees feed to larvae) that aids wound healing, called "defensin-1". Compared to a control, a royal jelly trial & a pure defensin-1 promoted healing of wounds on rats.
EgxMX TIL that scientists managed to virtually reconstruct the destroyed planetary system of the star WD 1145+017 by analysing the debris field around the star. Giving birth to the field of astronomy dedicated to studying destroyed planets known as Necroplanetology.