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TIL at one point in the 1990’s, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it

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l75KG TIL in the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos instituted a "two-pizza rule": every internal team should be small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas. The reason was that a smaller team spends less time managing timetables and keeping people up to date, and more time doing what needs to be done.
LBNQ TIL that coffee release CO2 for a few weeks after it is roasted, so most coffee bags have a hole to let air out so that the bags don’t explode from degassing. For K cups they allow the coffee to degas completely before packaging, thus making it stale.
5YgNQ TIL I learned that Sharknado was made with a fake name called “Dark Skies,” to get actors to sign on. After they learned it was Sharknado, they all tried to quit.
gMo97 TIL North Korea plays basketball with different rules. Slam Dunks are 3 pts, Three-point “nothing but net” shots are worth 4 pts, and teams lose points when they miss free throws.
xVAR1 TIL that in Japan the song Every Breath You Take is called 見つめていたい (mitsumete-itai), meaning "I am staring at you"