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TIL Mr Rogers poured the 100 billionth Crayola crayon

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lOmK TIL that 90% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from a contract with Google to be Firefox’s default search engine
E1VvX TIL Marina Abramović performed The Artist Is Present, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium across from 1,545 sitters, including Klaus Biesenbach, James Franco, Lou Reed, Alan Rickman, Jemima Kirke, Jennifer Carpenter and Björk
a1J TIL that after Selena’s slaying, gang members in Texas attempted to raise $500,000 for the bond set on Yolanda Saldivar, her killer, so that they could murder her once she was released.
yQmoJ TIL It is believed the first Japanese citizen to set foot in America was Oguri Jukichi, captain of a freighter that was sailing off the Japanese coast in 1813 when a storm blew it deep into the Pacific Ocean. Two years later, they were rescued off the coast of California and returned to Japan.
pYxe TIL that in WWII The Gambia Fought in Indochina With it’s Entire Military… Of Only Ten Men