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TIL Microsoft reportedly paid $8–14 million to use The Rolling Stones’ "Start Me Up" in Windows 95 ads which was a perfect match for the brand new Start button.

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EKWo TIL Gramin Shakti, a non-profit organization in Bangladesh provided solar panels for 1.5 million homes. 5 years later, the World Bank invested in less than a fraction of that, and received credit for Bangladesh’s solar revolution.
0wXA5 TIL about a set of twins that reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.
oBQ4K TIL: 32% of U.S. households don't have a dishwasher, Among households that do, 20% never use it. That means that 46% of US households never use a dishwasher,
xNDg TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.
kJBve TIL Somalia has the largest Camel population at an estimated six million within its borders and twice as many camels as Sudan.