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TIL Apple lost $1 billion in 1997 and was close to bankruptcy before Steve Jobs returned and Microsoft invested $150 million to help keep the company alive.

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Wmo4 TIL In 2015 a Chinese woman who was missing for a decade & presumed dead was found living in an internet cafe after playing games for 10 years.
yQy5l TIL native English speakers say adjectives in a specific order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. An example of this is the normal sounding "silly old fool" vs the weird sounding "old silly fool".
pYZ0G TIL Farrah Fawcett's iconic poster sold a record 12 million copies.
XdJQ TIL that “Amor De Cosmos” (“Lover of the Universe”) was the 2nd Premier of BC and a Founding Father of Canada. He was known to get into fist fights, was an early photographer, Mormon, and was declared insane after trying to start a hot food delivery business.
ADRaa TIL that all Nouns are Capitalized in the German Language.