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TIL that printer ink is more expensive than the actual printer because manufacturers like Epson or HP sell printers at a loss price because they want companies to mass buy printers, and then spend money on ink.

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k7B4 TIL Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, was so keen on getting every detail right, he wrote programs to calculate the orbital paths of spaceships that appear in the book.
V7a0 TIL a man in New Mexico threw a live mouse into a fire. The fiery rodent then ran back into his home, which burned down.
oB6oW TIL that a totally blind British MP was convinced in 1923 to have all his teeth removed to restore his eyesight, only to die from blood poisoning
ADRMl TIL Eleven and Twelve do not follow the teen pattern because they come from Old English terms that mean "one left after ten" and "two left after ten," or "ain-lif" and "twa-lif," due to the fact that these numbers were used commonly, unlike the other teens, and therefore developed much earlier.
8pEL TIL that from 9PM to 12AM, Netflix accounts for 33% of all bandwidth in North America.