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TIL - Microsoft search engine Bing has lost the company 5.5 billion since its launch in 2009.

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VK4k TIL that a 15-year-old did the same thing that Rosa Parks did 9 months earlier, but wasn’t iconized in part because she was too dark-skinned
QJXgL TIL 'Radium girls' were unknowingly killing themselves by applying radium-based luminous paint on clock dials from brushes they'd put in their mouths
ADZax TIL Usain Bolt ate 1,000 Chicken McNuggets over 10 days during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
gmpW TIL that jawbreakers have been known to explode when left out in the sun, causing serious injuries. This is because the layers of candy within heat at different rates.
R7JA1 TIL that Steven Bradbury, the Australian who won an Olympic gold in speed skating because everyone else fell down, owns a brewery called Last Man Standing