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TIL that unrelated animals have evolved into crabs so many times that biologists have a word for it, "carcinisation"

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80xX TIL the fall of Nokia has decimated Finland’s economy: “By 2000, Nokia accounted for a mindboggling 4% of Finnish GDP, 70% of Helsinki’s stock exchange market capital, 43% of corporate R&D, 21% of total exports and 14% of corporate tax revenues. It was and still is unprecedented.”
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
6ErWl TIL of Musopen, a non-profit org. that provides high-quality recordings of classical music in the public domain, so that anyone can use them. The project emerged as a response to the big corporations in the music industry that were burying old artists, like Beethoven and Chopin, behind copyright
ndgW TIL Disney’s movie “Mars Needs Moms” resulted in an estimated loss of $130,503,621 and is Disney’s worst received movie ever.
VMGx8 TIL about the long-distance bed pushing craze that swept across colleges, where people mounted beds on wheels and pushed them far as they could go. The farthest record holder is students from Pennsylvania's St. Vincent College who pushed a bed in laps around a shopping center for 1,980 miles in 1979