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TIL Mark Zuckerberg spent $30 million to buy 4 houses surrounding his home, because he wanted to have privacy.

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R7MR4 TIL of a insurance dispute following the 9/11 attacks of whether or not the attacks constituted 1 or 2 events under the policy terms
wL8P TIL A man won a bet that he could have sex with 2 women for 12 hours but died shortly afterward due to ingesting an entire bottle of viagra.
grdBb TIL an infection model explains why spiral galaxies have spiral arms—the deaths of massive stars trigger star formation elsewhere (infection), while their vicinities recover due to the dispersed material; this propagation/recovery and the galaxy's rotation leads to the spiral structures
rNepW TIL - In 2000, the first crewed mission to the International Space Station (Expedition 1) launched on October 31. This began continuous human presence in space, with astronauts from NASA and Roscosmos working together aboard the ISS. The collaboration has been ongoing ever since.
weWE TIL that a female Prada Japan executive was demoted, then fired for being ‘Ugly’ and bringing 'Negative energy to the company’ when she complained. A Japanese court found the company’s actions acceptable. The case is now at the United Nations.