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TIL Light Bulb Manufacturers formed a Market Controlling ‘Cartel’ that disallowed 1000 Hour+ lightbulbs, and threatened legal action to any company who did.

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vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.
8aYg4 TIL. Inhabitants of Hamburg, Germany are known as Hamburgers
Yko7 TIL that if you pour cold water into a person’s ear, their eyes will move in direction of the opposite ear, if you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that ear. This is used to test for brain damage and is called ‘caloric stimulation’.
En87 TIL when Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises he tried to ride them
XE5nD TIL whale oil was used in transmission fluids as recently as 1972. Transmission failures soared when its use was banned.