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TIL Google has been buying, on average, more than one company per week since 2010.

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6OZm TIL that Professional Sumo wrestling in Japan has been dominated by Mongolian wrestlers for nearly 20 years.
yQMZJ TIL in the 1970s, AMC released a special edition Levi's denim-branded Gremlin, with a faux-denim interior and copper rivets instead of seat buttons
jgeN TIL The FBI lab has been lying about hair samples for two decades, resulting in innocent death sentences
Lpd9 TIL that a volcano trapped some salt water sardines, sharks and sea snakes in a lake. Over centuries the animals adapted and evolved to form new species, the world’s only fresh water sardines, sharks and sea snakes.
ADRkn TIL In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. In China, she is being called the "three noes" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas