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TIL Google’s tagline was “don’t be evil” until 2015, when corporate restructuring changed it to “do the right thing.”

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wLkK6 TIL that Reginald Dwayne Betts spent 8 years in prison as a result of carjacking when he was 16 after getting out of prison he became one of the rare convicted felons to get a law degree from Yale and passed the Connecticut bar exam in September 2017.
Ypwpr TIL that in 1942 the US effected gas rationing; the goal was not to save on gas but to conserve the rubber used in tires to benefit the war effort.
p8lxN TIL the nematomorph parasite attaches itself to a cricket, but needs an aquatic habitat to survive. To achieve this, the parasite induces the cricket into a water dive, which is a suicidal impulse to drown itself.
WkVeN TIL that quokkas moms will throw their babies on the ground as a distraction when being chased by predators
RRJw TIL that a ship sank in Alaska waters during the gold rush with as much as $260 million in gold aboard that’s never been recovered.