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TIL 2013 was the first year without a Loch Ness Monster sighting since 1933

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KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.
1lZW TIL that Bell telephone could have made the internet back in the 1960s if their “picturephone” service had not flopped.
ADeA4 TIL the reason why businesses refer to the Super Bowl in their advertisements as "The Big Game" is because the NFL owns the trademark to the phrase "Super Bowl" and will severely crack down on any business that uses those words without officially licensing it from the NFL
LkE4d TIL San Diego Zoo had an orangutan named Ken who escaped several times. During his escapes, he just wandered around the zoo & looked at all the animals in their enclosures. One time, he went to the enclosure of another orangutan he disliked & threw rocks at him.
9YbQ6 TIL during the lead-up to the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, tearing it down and replacing it with a fiberglass replica was considered.