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TIL When the Wii U failed miserably, the Nintendo CEO halved his own salary for half a year, instead of laying off his employees.

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Xd06 TIL that a lesbian journalist went undercover as a straight white male for 18 months. She concluded that “Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don’t have it better… I like [being a woman] more now because I think it’s more of a privilege.”
8aJpG TIL there is no universally accepted criterion for distinguishing two different languages from two dialects (i.e. varieties) of the same language. What's considered a language is therefore subjective.
P57L TIL oranges are dyed orange when the weather is not cold enough to produce the characteristic skin color.
9wZrB TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.
mxKP TIL Blockbuster declined several offers to buy Netflix for $50 million. Netflix is now worth $2 billion.