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TIL that Valve refuses to become a publicly traded company because they don’t want to have their products influenced by people who fund them.

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B4Je TIL that while he was writing the score for The Last Samurai, Hans Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was very limited even after doing extensive research. When he took what he had written to Japan for feedback he was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music.
QJjbe TIL pigeons are everywhere because humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago for food, and have since been using them for other things until they were abandoned and perfectly adapted for an urban environment
Bxpb TIL: Australia committed genocide against the Aboriginal, native people from 1910-1970 in an effort to create a “white Australia.”
n6oB TIL that Muse refuse to play lipsynced. So when given no choice by Italian TV show, band members switched roles and no one realized, despite their hilarious playing of each others instruments.
j6p6n TIL the first business idea of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs wasn't Apple but a business called Blue Box. Long distance calls in the 70s was very expensive so they made an illegal device that would trick phone companies into connecting you to phone numbers overseas.