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TIL the richest man in Wisconsin, and founder of Menards, John Menard, was sued for intentional inflection of emotional distress, battery, attempted battery, assault, attempted assault.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 9:46 pm

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TIL Wang Geon, the founder of Goryeo (a medieval Korean kingdom), had 30 wives and 34 children. He married daughters from powerful noble families to have their support. In contrast, his son Gwangjong, wanting to retain power only in the royal family, married his half-sister, and his niece

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 12:00 am

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(repost) Sad News: the founder of /r/jokes passed away

by cringeyjokesman August 21, 2022, 5:18 pm

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TIL that Joseph Smith, founder of a 19th century polygamist cult, used to send men overseas to preach and win converts, while Smith stayed at home and married their wives and daughters to himself.

by whatilearned August 11, 2022, 12:02 am

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TIL the founder of the darknet’s original Silk Road – who’s serving a life sentence in prison – raised over $6 million in 2022 by issuing an NFT.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 1:44 am

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TIL in the 1970s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak offered a 1/3 stake in Apple for $50,000 to Nolan Bushnell, their former boss and founder of Atari. He said no, but later spent $500,000 on the rights to the Pizza Time Theater chain. He said “It’s kind of fun to think about, when I’m not crying.”

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 5:19 pm

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Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s photo discovered by descendant after nearly 180 years

by HistoryBuff July 23, 2022, 11:38 am

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TIL the French fashion designer, founder of Chanel, and feminist icon CoCo Chanel was an ardent Nazi, a Nazi intelligence agent for both the SD and Abwehr, and a staunch anti-semite

by whatilearned July 16, 2022, 1:24 pm

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TIL In 2011, 84 year old Playboy founder Hugh Hefner made $6.15-per-share offer to take his company private. Shortly after Hefner’s previous $5.50-per-share offer, the owner of rival Penthouse magazine made a $210 million counteroffer for Playboy but Hefner refused

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 2:00 am

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TIL Queen ELIZABETH II is related to Prophet Muhammad. Historians believe Elizabeth II is a descendant of the founder of Islam after tracing her family tree back 43 generations

by whatilearned June 17, 2022, 9:37 pm

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TIL The founder of Little Caesar’s Pizza paid Rosa Park’s rent for 10 years. When he learned she had been robbed and beaten in her Detroit home, he established a trust to cover the housing expenses and continued paying her rent every single month until she died in 2005

by whatilearned June 2, 2022, 6:31 pm

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TIL Zeno of Citium, the founder of stoicism, wrote his own version of The Republic in response to Plato’s. The work has not survived, but it depicted a stoic utopia based on the principles of asceticism.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 11:42 pm

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