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TIL Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos still drives his 1996 Honda Accord. That model today costs around $4000.

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aJ7A TIL deaf people usually sneeze silently, most sneezing sounds are cultural.
kJZEg TIL that the Sultan of Morocco from 1672 to 1727 was Moulay Ismail. He had a harem of over 500 wives and concubines and fathered more than 800 children. He lived to be 81.
ZQpD TIL that lightning can cause red, jellyfish-shaped flashes as big as 48 by 48 km to appear above thunderclouds. These are called sprites (air spirits), after their elusiveness, and are actually clusters of balls of plasma.
VBK1k TIL the phrase "Writing on the Wall" originates from the Book of Daniel (Old Testament) in which King Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing the doomed fate of the Babylonian Empire on a wall at a party
nWMP TIL that a set of simple algorithms can give rise to amazingly complex patterns that are able to transform, breed, travel, and create. It’s Conway’s Game of Life, and in principle it is the same way organic molecules work together to create the patterns that are life.