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TIL Google has been interested in becoming a wireless carrier like Verizon and AT&T since 2012.

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kJZPm TIL the 'Cheers' co-creators ended the series after Ted Danson told them that he'd be leaving the show. Co-creator James Burrows said "Ted’s edict to us caught us by surprise..we talked about whether we could continue...& we thought that Sam Malone & Cheers were too symbiotic to go on [without him]"
lodL1 TIL researches at Uni. of Oklahoma injected almost 300 MG of LSD into a male Indian elephant in 1967. Within 5 minutes he collapsed; slightly under two hours later he was dead.
LkerZ TIL that the Latin word for left hand is "sinister". This prejudice against left-handed people eventually made the word sinister mean evil and threatening.
Wkn1d TIL The creator of the GIF file format said the GIF file is pronounced as JIF during an awards ceremony in 2013
8Y5P TIL that the CEO of Spotify was once the CEO of uTorrent in 2006