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TIL Bell Labs still exists as a subsidiary of Nokia.

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QNxnE TIL that Nirvana's "In Utero" album was recorded in Cannon Falls, Minnesota - A town of 4,000 that's 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis
B4Mk TIL Steve Jobs used a loophole in the medical registration system to get his non-essential liver transplant before 16,000 other people who were already on the list for years.
jgdn TIL the makers of the ‘Airplane!’ and “Naked Gun” movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say “Its All Pink on the inside”.
OGJd7 TIL the exact ingredients of herbs and spices used to flavour vermouth are kept secret by manufacturers
jNL6v TIL of the Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED), a proposed solution for protecting Northern Europe from rising sea levels. It involves the construction of two dams, one in the English Channel and the other in the North Sea stretching from Scotland to Norway.