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TIL Steve jobs tricked HP’s Carly Fiorina into allowing iTunes to becoming the prominent music player on PC’s while effectively banning her own music player until 2006.

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G8R5 TIL Until 2014, police in Hawaii were allowed to legally have sex with prostitutes as part of their investigations.
VB6vZ TIL there are only three known photos and no media recordings of Germany’s richest person, Dieter Schwarz (net worth $38B). He is the former Chairman and CEO of supermarket chain Lidl.
loQDN TIL that your nose only breathes using one nostril at a time, and that the nostril in use switches every few hours. This "nasal cycle" is dictated by the same system that regulates heart rate and other unconscious bodily functions and is the reason why only one nostril gets stuffy at a time.
LkkJP Lots of animals reproduce asexually. Why not humans?
1JrX TIL that in Japan there is a railway company that employs a cat as a “Super Station Master”. She is the only female employee in a managerial position