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TIL “Friendstalker” was one of the early names considered for twitter.

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4XWGb TIL about Maximilian I, the younger brother of Franz- Josef, the only Hapsburg monarch of Mexico. During the Franco-Mexican war, Napoleon III gave Maximilian a huge chunk of Mexico in 1864 and Maximilian made a lot of liberal reforms at the time. He was executed 3 years later.
N6K8 TIL there is a city in Russia where the pollution is so severe that mining the topsoil is now economically feasible because it contains so many heavy metals.
W7GJ4 TIL that Stanley Kubrick originally wanted a happy ending for the 1957 film Paths of Glory to make the film more commercial. However, The film's star and producer Kirk Douglas forced Kubrick to change it into a downer ending from the original novel.
rlNM TIL that “fire fighting” and “kite flying” were featured at the 1900 Olympics in Paris
wLgN1 TIL that delivery companies hijack phone numbers of restaurants and are hemorrhaging money. Grubhub lost $33 million on $360 million in revenue in Q1. Doordash lost $450 million off $900 million in revenue in 2019. Uber Eats has Uber's highest profits. Uber Eats spent $1.2 B to make $734 million