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TIL that in 2010, when Google replaced their logo with playable Pacman, users spent an extra 36 seconds on the page. Assuming this time was wasted, it resulted in a $120M loss in man hours.

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pYeAp TIL that WW2 British General Bernard Montgomery made a bet with Walter Bedell Smith, that if he could capture Sfax by April 1943, then he would get a Flying Fortress. Montgomery did so and when Smith tried to laugh it off, went to Eisenhower to get his Flying Fortress.
gng8 TIL all 100 nuclear reactors now operating in the U.S. were built on or before 1977
40PX TIL that a man blinded in the Russian Civil War went on to create an Olympic target pistol so radically different that it was banned from competition after 1956 … also Princess Leia used it in Star Wars
kOW9m TIL that since Mount Rushmore is carved out of solid granite, which erodes 1 inch every 10,000 years, the basic shape of the faces will last up to 7 million years (though their noses will only last 2 million)
lwea TIL 70% of millionaires do not consider themselves “wealthy”