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TIL Sony sold 12 million floppy disks.. in 2009

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QNJ8p TIL the Cheetah Conservation Fund imports Turkish Kangal dogs to Namibia and Kenya to help protect livestock, which in turns decreases the killing of cheetah's by farmers by reducing the amount of animals they lose to cheetahs.
nePVB TIL that there are five different colors of blood among living things barring anomalies.
E1Wep TIL that Scooby-Doo's characters were based on a popular teenage sitcom from the 1950's called "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"; Shaggy was based on a character played by Bob Denver, aka Gilligan from Gilligan's Island.
P1bOZ TIL about Victor Lustig, a con artist who famously "sold" the Eiffel Tower twice in 1925 to scrap metal dealers in one of the most audacious scams in history.
yQLQe TIL “E pluribus unum” (Latin for "Out of many, one" and in use since 1776) was replaced by Congress in 1956 with “In God we trust” as the official motto of the USA.