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VMLL4
TIL that when company CEOs like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg took only $1 in yearly salary, it wasn't necessarily an altruistic move, but rather it is more tax-efficient (for example 35% vs. 15%) to receive compensation in ways that are taxed as "capital gains".
4w7o
TIL When LimeWire shut down back in 2010, the copyright damages were totaled to be ~$72 Trillion, greater than the sum of the world GDP, which came out to approximately $105,000 for every time one of the 11,000 copyrighted songs was downloaded. It was later settled with the RIAA for $105 Million.
WGwo
TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.