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TIL that Jeff Bezos earns over 2400 USD per second meaning it would barely worth his while to stop and pick up a hundred dollar note.

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M7b7 TIL on October 12, 1960, during a live, televised debate, a Japanese politician was stabbed to death by a 17yo right-wing assassin. The entire incident was broadcast nation wide.
ADdVx TIL that North Koreans are very proud of their one-of-a-kind desks. The desk was invented by Kim Jong Il and has a knob which can be used to adjust the height of the desk.
nekwW TIL that in New Zealand, a species of fungus gnats known as Arachnocampa luminos exists, that spins silk nests on cave ceilings, and when prey is entangled in a snare, the larva pulls it up by ingesting the snare, and starts feeding on the prey alive.
Gyw5 TIL Tenzing Norgay left some chocolate at the top of Mt Everest when he climbed with Edmund Hillary. The chocolate was just eaten by some vandals in 2012.
N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.