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TIL while free to watch online, the single ticket price for attending a TED talk starts at $8,500!

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yQeap TIL of Planned obsolescence, the practice of making a product obsolete thru various means, such as HP who designed certain inkjet printers and cartridges to shut down on an undisclosed expiration date which prevented consumers from using the ink that remained in the expired cartridge
p8PaN TIL that Stephen King cannot remember writing Cujo (1981) because he was so out of it on cocaine
NDyJ TIL in 1920, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested thousands of innocent Americans for radical leftist activity, in what is now called the Palmer Raids
xVXYD TIL that in the Plutchik's wheel of emotions, boredom is on the same spectrum as disgust and loathing.
1VxW TIL the ‘TIE’ in 'TIE Fighters’ is an acronym for “Twin Ion Engine”