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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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e0lk TIL Google search results can be limited to a specific reading level. Really useful for finding grade school materials or scientific journals.
X0r7P TIL that 3 academics used writings from Mein Kampf (with wording changed) to write 20 papers, which promoted feminist ideologies to show biases in ideology based subjects. 7 of the papers got published by top journals.
ADPpo TIL that Family Video is still in business because the owners where smart enough to invest in PURCHASING property (which can be leased out even after DVD's are dead), instead of simply RENTING space like Blockbuster did.
R7O6w TIL - Garfield-shaped phones have been polluting the shore of the Finistère coasts of Brittany (France) for 35 years. The reason is due to a container wedged between the rocks that is slowly pouring them into the sea.
ekGE TIL the Chocolate River in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was actually made of chocolate cream, and eventually turned rancid