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TIL Your brain alone burns 400-500 calories each day

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V6M0 TIL, In 2010 General Electric brought in $14,000,000,000 in profit world wide, with over $5,000,000,000 in profit brought from the United States alone, and paid no taxes.
16r1V TIL: We know exactly who was the first person to LOL: some guy from Canada called Wayne Pearson
LkE8V TIL former NBA player, Chris Webber, has an extensive collection of African American artifacts he began collecting his rookie year. It grew so large that it is housed in the Sacramento Public Library’s Archive Vault. It includes signed docs and letters from Malcolm X, MLK, and Frederick Douglass.
yarw TIL the reason that cashews are expensive is because they grow individually on a apple like fruit and must be removed manually. Their shells are also toxic.
na8G TIL that in the 1960s Nintendo manufactured a toy called Ultra Hand. made of criss-crossed plastic elements that enabled its user to pick up objects. It was very successful and helped save Nintendo from serious financial difficulties. Its inventor went on to create the Game Boy.