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TIL that AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was frequently quoted as having said "Screw the customers, I'm taking care of the shareholders."

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9wO7r TIL that 2 million discarded tires were deliberately dumped off the coast of Florida in the 1970’s, with the intent to stimulate growth of new coral reefs. Instead, the tires ended up killing off nearby reefs. The tires are still causing damage today.
xWGw TIL in 1784, Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama and 43 others were stranded on a Pacific Island after a shipwreck and eventually perished. Before his own death, Matsuyama threw a message in a bottle into the ocean. Over 150 years later the bottle washed ashore in the same town Matsuyama was born.
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e0Orn TIL: The last letter added to the English alphabet was J