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TIL Most of Sony’s total global revenue comes from selling life insurance in Japan

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WpMN TIL residential electrical outlets are usually turned “upside down” to denote that they are connected to a wall-switch.
Ooy86 TIL about Karen Silkwood, a chemical technician who died in a car crash after attempting to expose unethical things done at the nuclear power plant she worked in.
6Eow TIL that hiccups were an evolutionary necessity, but now they serve no purpose.
88A8 TIL during WW2 Canadian soldier Leo Major singlehandedly captured 93 Nazis in the Netherlands. He later singlehandedly captured the town of Zwolle from the Germans. And he was blind in one eye.
E1v6d TIL that a company called Open AI will democratize music production and enable basically anyone to become a music artist