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TIL that Bulgarians are descendants of the migratory bolghars

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6E8Kl TIL Apple was fined $9 million in Australia because it misled hundreds of Australian customers by ‘bricking’ their iPhones in a software update and then denying them repairs. The customers were informed they were no longer entitled to a repair because they had used a third party to fix their devices
9wQEr TIL NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt had a Confederate flag bumper sticker on his truck. When his black housekeeper told him that it made her uncomfortable, he immediately scraped it off.
wLgvM TIL that a British midshipman, Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, managed to survive the torpedoing and sinking of three different warships -- within the space of about an hour
NvAP TIL when workers were renovating Ireland’s Leap Castle, they found so many human remains impaled on wooden spikes within a wall, it took three cartloads to remove them.
Bmye TIL From 1975 until 2013, Russia kept at least 10,000 more nuclear weapons than the US. The US dramatically reduced its number of weapons after 1975, to the point where Russia once had over 26,000 more weapons. In 2013 the numbers became nearly equal for the first time in decades.