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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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1XZd TIL potatoes have almost all nutrients humans need to survive. To prove this, the Executive Director from the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for 60 days.
vEYK TIL man’s walking pace slows by 7% for wives and girlfriends but not for other women, and increases if walking with another man.
W7QBB TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages.
BO6D TIL That in the original story, the slippers in Cinderella were made from squirrel fur, and the glass slipper likely came from a mistranslation.
wBGP TIL that the world’s oldest company is Kongō Gumi, a Japanese construction firm founded in 578 and which operated independently until it was bought out in 2006.