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TIL in 2009 Amazon sold diapers at a 100m loss to scare Diapers.com into selling them their business or face being ran into the ground

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WllB TIL that David Robinson grew so tall (7'0" by graduation) at the Naval Academy that he could not have served at sea, hurting any career in the US Navy. Instead of leaving the academy, as a compromise he was assigned to shore duty as an engineer before becoming a basketball superstar in the NBA.
JY864 TIL Matthew McConaughey's brother, Rooster McConaughey, named his son Miller Lyte and got free beer for a year.
kJBBe TIL although French toast was a popular dish generally served in U.S. railway dining cars in the early and mid-20th century, the Santa Fe Railway was especially known for it. Most of the railroads provided recipes for these and other dining car offerings to the public as a promotional feature.
VMlQB TIL Stanford University developed Artificial Intelligence which can guess if a person is gay, based on a photo of their face, with 91% accuracy on dating sites.
QjMX TIL That a man was once charged with assault for defending his property against vandalizing teens, by spraying them with red fox urine.