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TIL Enron renamed themselves EOG Resources and continue to operate today

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dDlKj TIL of Wall-Sun-Sun primes, a category of prime numbers that obey certain rules related to the Fibonacci sequence. It is conjectured that there are infinitely many of them. None are known, and there are definitely none that are smaller than 20 digits.
WkMpd TIL the blue star symbol on elevators is known as the Star of Life, and means that elevator is big enough to hold a stretcher
RAlj TIL that Osama Bin Laden cost United States taxpayers over $3 trillion dollars over the 15 years leading up to his death.
8jab TIL that until 1999, the State of Montana didn’t have a speed limit on the interstate, and instead encouraged drivers to be “reasonable and prudent”
e066b TIL that a number of private US universities (including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had quotas on the maximum number of Jews to be admitted. In 1935, Yale's Med School Dean stated: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."