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TIL The film Predator was originally written in responese to Rocky movies after people joked he was running out of people to box and would have to fight an alien next

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loMDV TIL, in 2001, Kodak attempted to shift quickly from film to digital cameras. They jumped to #2 in digital camera sales by taking a loss of $60 on every camera sold
Wkvnd TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout probably allowed early typewriter salesmen to impress their customers by being able to easily type out the example word "typewriter" without having learned the full keyboard layout, because "typewriter" can be spelled purely on the top row of the keyboard.
wLRkM TIL when the Dutch bought Manhattan from Native Americans, they paid the wrong tribe.
dEk9 TIL that a pound (.45kg) of dimes and a pound (.45kg) of quarters are both worth exactly $20 USD.
nWN8r TIL about the Shreveport Rate Case, a SCOTUS case that allowed the federal government to regulate intrastate commerce when it is needed to regulate interstate commerce. It was brought against an interstate railway that charged shipping rates that favored Texan cities, a policy mandated by the state.