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TIL that Bell Labs, a research company that has contributed to many significant inventions, including transistors, lasers and solar cells, and whose work has been awared nine Nobel Prizes, is currently owned by Nokia

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x8r7 TIL September 1, 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the death of the last Passenger Pigeon
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