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TIL Bell Labs still exists as a subsidiary of Nokia.

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rRJey TIL James Franco has a mutation on a gene that allows him to sleep for about half the time that we normally need
kjPd TIL that a Russian man is suing Bethesda (developers of Fallout 4) claiming he wasn’t warned about the addictive nature of the game: He played for three weeks straight, stopping just for sleep. He lost his job and his wife
E1QMo TIL the Norse did scientific observations in America, measuring the hours of the day at Winter Solstice at 9 hrs. This matches Mount Hope Bay, Massachusetts, according to historian Carl Rafn.
PYjyE TIL (US-Style) Biscuits are generally of a better quality in the South because they require soft-wheat, which is grown and sold in the South almost exclusively. Soft wheat is better for biscuits but worse for bread - the opposite is true for the hard wheat of the North and West of the US.
R7EL9 TIL Carmel, a city in Indiana, has the highest number of traffic roundabouts in the US. Since late 1990s the city has built 125 roundabouts.