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TIL that reading all privacy policies the average internet consumer encounters in a year would take 76 work days

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8eaYa TIL that Goodyear created colored, light-up tires in the 1960s. However, it never made it into mass-production, one reason being that other drivers drove too dangerously whilst trying to look at the tires.
1aN74 TIL that Chik-fil-A has the highest per store revenue of all fast food restaurants (average $4.5m) - twice that of Chipotle, Panda, Wendy's, and Del Taco - despite being open only 6 days a week.
R55EQ TIL that during the Great Depression a businessman turned a poor Florida town into the richest US city per capita by convincing the populace to YOLO into Coca Cola stock, the value of which proceeded to appreciate vastly
o0b7 TIL the man who invented the Super Soaker and the Nerf gun, invested his fortune in R&D and has created ceramic solid state batteries with 3 times the power of the best lithium-ion batteries
QN84p TIL: Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, uses 25% of the global hazelnut supply