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TIL Carly Fiorina resigned from HP. Since then she has been described as one of the worst tech CEOs of all time.

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ZpDLB TIL about Nanuqsaurus ("polar bear lizard") a relative of T-rex that lived in the arctic.
9w6v6 TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who was killed after an eagle carrying a tortoise, mistook Aeschylus' bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the reptile's shell. Apparently, Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed "by a falling object".
wL8M TIL superhero is a trademark co-owned by DC and Marvel Comics, and no one else is permitted to use it on the cover of any comic book or magazine.
gn0L TIL scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest living animal.
VMdRB TIL of Victor Herman, one of thousands of Americans sympathetic towards Communism who went to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s to work but who met tragic fates during the Stalin purge.