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TIL that over 30% of AOL’s total revenue still comes from dial-up subscribers

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4bxR TIL that green olives are the same as black olives, but green olives are picked before ripening and black olives are picked while ripe
6Z97 TIL that Cate Blanchett’s Academy Award for playing Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator” made her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor
7rVmb TIL that the word "sophomore" means "wise fool" in Greek, describing the tendency of adolescents to behave so irrationally despite thinking rationally sometimes.
BZWb TIL the Disney exec responsible for John Carter stepped down from his job after the movie studio took a 200 million dollar loss
VMZjp TIL By bringing light to a focus, a telescope forms an image — a little picture floating in the air inside the tube. Eyepieces makes it possible to view that image and changing eyepieces determines a telescope's magnifying power