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TIL US Cell Carriers are (and/or were) selling REAL TIME location data without consent to 3rd parties including advertisers and even bounty hunters!

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1a6Gd TIL Electronic Arts is not even in the top 5 companies in terms of game sales in 2016. The top spot goes to Tencent, a Chinese company that makes casual games for the QQ messaging client. They raked in over twice as much profit as EA last year.
Zoko TIL the CEO of a credit card company took a pay cut in order to raise the wages of his staff to $70,000 per year, even for the lowest-paid clerk; the average salary of the 120 person staff had been $48K per year.
VBjRD TIL, there's a temple in India where people worship Rats
xVG95 TIL: The Hanshin Expressway is a 149-mile network of expressways in Japan. The highway’s most famous and unique feature is a small section of road that passes directly through three floors of an office building (Gate Tower Building) in Okasaka.
9Yaep TIL that in the United States Robertson screws are not widely used. Apparently Henry Ford couldn’t make an exclusive deal with Robertson, instead made one with Phillips, and the rest is history. Phillips are still the most popular screw heads in the US despite their inferior design.