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TIL Computers needed only 10 Likes to predict personality more accurately than a work colleague, 70 to outperform a friend or roommate, and 150 to surpass a family member. This was in 2015!

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xWrD TIL the government once forced AT&T, DuPont, and other tech giants to release all their patents. This forced them to compete with smaller companies and sparked technological progress. The policy ended in the Reagan administration.
O9A7 TIL when Dr. Jonas Salk (discoverer and developer of the first polio vaccine) was asked who owned the patent he replied “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Forbes calculated the vaccine to be “worth” 7 billion dollars. Happy 100th birthday you magnificent bastard.
OoEle TIL Colorado has the highest low point of any state in the United States. The Arikaree River at the Kansas border has a low point of 3,317 ft (1,011 m)
rKpo TIL Aladdin’s face was based on Tom Cruise.
P1LMG TIL: a total solar eclipse occurs somewhere on Earth roughly every 18 months, but it only reoccurs in the same place every 350-400 years.