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TIL that in 1997, Microsoft saved Apple from bankruptcy by investing $150 million into the company.

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Z86aB TIL 2,500 left-handed people die each year using equipment made for right-handed people.
1aQOX TIL that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 originally had the Twin Towers in the game, but they were removed a week after the attack
mxZQy TIL Ravoux's slavemaker ant is a species where the queen can fake her own death to encourage ants from a rival colony to drag her body back to the nest. When there, she kills the nest's queen and bathes in her pheromones, becoming the new queen. Her soldiers overrun the colony and take control.
neAy7 TIL the medals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are made from metals recovered from recycled cell phones collected since 2017.
NoYQ TIL that horror/supernatural writer Anne Rice’s birth name was Howard Allen Frances O'Brien. Her parents changed it at age six, it after she introduced herself in school to a nun as “Anne,” a name she found pretty, rather than give her birth name out of embarrassment.