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Amazon sold someone a Moto Z4 before Motorola has even announced it.

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OG0M6 TIL Carrie Fisher was only 20 years old when the original Star Wars was released in 1977.
mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.
lojQr TIL about transculturation, a process in which cultures living together adopt one another's practices (generally benefitting the culture in power). An example is Our Lady of Guadalupe, who first appeared at a location already sacred in Aztec times and gradually became the patron saint of Mexico.
BgBYy TIL the Air Heads mystery flavor is just a combo of whatever flavors are left in the factory on a given day. It was a teenager's idea - who wrote about it in a letter to the brand in 1993.
4GoR TIL Diogenes of Sinope, an ancient Greek philosopher, would masturbate in public. When asked why he would say: “If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.”