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TIL that Firefox and Chrome users stay in their jobs 15 percent longer than their Safari and IE counterparts.

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GALAN TIL They developed and implemented Pacemakers powered by a Plutontum 238 source, people are still living with them til this day
a8r4J TIL New York's Paramount theater would reek of urine after Frank Sinatra shows because the bobby-soxers would come for the first show at 9:15 a.m. and stay for show after show, determined never to relinquish a precious seat even if it meant soaking in it.
ODgR TIL there is no evidence to suggest that Marie Antoinette ever said, “let them eat cake.” Scholars think the phrase was a common insult used to criticize aristocratic figures in the 18th century.
yaNV TIL the first chemist in history is considered to be a Babylonian woman perfume-maker by the name of Tapputi.
GYXpE TIL: 14-year-old Roman Emperor Elagabalus was a cross-dressing, sex-obsessed torture fiend who may have invented the whoopee cushion. He loosed venomous snakes into gladiatorial crowds and released his pet lions and leopards into banquet halls or the bed chambers of his guests.