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TIL Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde) once wrote a letter to Henry Ford, thanking him for the reliability and performance of his V-8 automobiles.

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byJ9 TIL that in 2001, the heavily-indebted airline AirAsia was bought by Tony Fernandes’ company for One Malaysian ringgit (US$0.26) with (40 million MYR) US$11 million worth of debt. He turned the company around and produced profit in a year.
wL1V8 TIL: Despite having a lower rate of smoking, the United States has a 10x higher rate of lung cancer than Japan.
gNWX TIL a Chinese company, Ninebot Inc., made a knock off of the Segway. When Segway tried to sue them, Ninebot used the money they made from selling the knock offs to buy the company that originally made the Segway.
Verp TIL that 91,4 % of 9/11 survivors put off evacuation to shut down Computers or to go to the bathroom before evacuating.
M8dB TIL about a hacker who, while serving five years for hacking, signed up for a prison IT class, and successfully hacked into the prison’s mainframe