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TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.

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DaD TIL: Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” was originally an unfinished song by Bob Dylan
J1MAQ TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life.
gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
E1n5d TIL, bud light sent a cease and desist letter to a small brewer who named a beer "Dilly,Dilly". The C&D letter was written on a scroll and announced by a town cryer.
negV7 TIL that after recording "Cool Cat" with Queen, David Bowie had requested that his vocals be removed from the track just days before it was released publicly because he was "disappointed with his performance".