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TIL - NVIDIA's unofficial company motto is "Our company is thirty days from going out of business."

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xNv7 TIL in the Yellow River in China there are so many corpses to be found that it is lucrative to recover them and sell the bodies back to the families of the deceased for 500$
neW8B TIL Rome and Carthage signed a peace treaty to officially end the 3rd Punic war. In 1985
wNoP TIL of Harald Hadrada, a Viking who fled from his native Norway to Russia, then went on to become an elite guardsman in Eastern Roman Empire and fought in Iraq. He then went back to Russia to marry a princess, and arrived back in Norway as a king, and finally invaded England with his army.
XEXr8 TIL Pablo Escobar, The Cocaine Kingpin, said that one of his first illegal enterprises was robbing tombstones from local graveyards, sanding down the names, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers.
dDp9E TIL that polar bears are also ranged hunters and will throw rocks and chunks of ice at walruses to stun or even kill them outright