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TIL that Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy 4 times yet finds time to host a television show in which he gives other celebrities financial and business advice.

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nW61b TIL that photosynthetic archaea(single-celled organisms similar in some ways to bacteria) absorb light using rhodopsin instead of chlorophyll, which is the same protein that our eyes use to see. The way they consume their food is the same way we see the world.
e05rb TIL Nora Ephron (once married to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein) would regularly reveal the identity of informant Deep Throat to anyone who asked her. No one, apart from her sons, believed her.
awNQ0 TIL that for the last 100 years, Minnesota's been refusing requests from Virginia to return a captured Confederate Battle flag; in 2000 Gov. Jesse Ventura responded “Why? We won. ... We took it. That makes it our heritage.”
e0D44 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
wlmP TIL if you are Jewish and 18-26 years old, you are entitled to a free 10 day trip to Israel