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TIL Sony’s PlayStation 4 Costs $381 to Manufacture

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Wklb9 TIL after Libertarians from the Free State Project took over the tiny town of Grafton, NH, their municipal budget-cutting and disregard for local wildlife caused bears to become fearless. That led to 3 separate bear attacks.
Yb8d TIL that Exxon’s punitive damages for the Exxon Valdex oil spill were reduced from $5 billion to $507.5 million
QNMO9 TIL many commonly used statistical methods, such as Student's t-test, were invented by the head brewer at Guiness Brewery for quality control
oo9W TIL that the urge to sneeze when looking at a light source is actually a genetic trait called “Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-ophthalmic Outburst” or ‘ACHOO’ and afflicts up to 35% of the world’s population.
9wddX TIL: How dogs barks in different languages. “woke woke”