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TIL Renee Zellweger does not look the same as she used to. Still beautiful, though!

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neDZ7 TIL that after WWII, a small electronics shop was built in a bomb-damaged department store in Tokyo. The company, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, had only $530 and 8 employees. The company invented Japan's first tape recorder and, in 1958, changed its name to Sony.
0yDN TIL that in 2004 Google anonymously posted math equations on billboards in Harvard Square and Silicon Valley that if solved led to a website with another equation, which in turn allowed you to submit your resume.
gMP6L TIL that the ‘adult colouring book’ craze has happened before, in 1820, Victorian England
1aPEP TIL at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 7 year old Yang Peiyi wasn't deemed "cute enough" to sing for the opening ceremonies, so they substituted 9 year old Lin Mioke to lip-sync in Yang's place.
wL5g7 TIL in 2016, 'Getty Images' sold some of the 100,000+ photos that had been donated, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress by the original photographer and Getty Images then demanded payment from the photographer, for using the photos she owned. She sued them (unsuccessfully) for over $1 billion.