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TIL after first implementing cloud computing technology, Amazon employed “two-pizza teams” to maintain and upgrade the hardware, aka a team small enough to be fed with only 2 pizzas.

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WkmQ9 TIL that slaveholders in the US knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.
ANMB7 TIL In December 1941, Franklin Roosevelt became the first President to use an armored vehicle. Originally belonging to infamous gangster Al Capone, the car was seized by the Treasury Department in 1932 on an income-tax evasion charge.
M7PB7 TIL Due to signing their merchandise deal late, Kenner sold the first four Star Wars figures in a empty box for Christmas 1977, it had a mail in rebate so you would receive your four figures by February 1978.
m9MM TIL that every known prime number above 3 is one more or less than a multiple of 6 (6n±1)
7VdX TIL the creator of FedEx was so strapped for cash in the company at one point that he went to Vegas to play blackjack and won $27,000 to help the company.