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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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wLmmJ TIL The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped save the lives of 122 million children since 1990.
kOZEd TIL fines were introduced to decrease the number of parents late to pickup their child from school. This actually doubled them, because people felt their tardiness was okay because they paid the fine for it.
BrRpx TIL China has the world's biggest deep sea fishing fleet that strip mines the world's oceans. The Chinese government heavily subsidises the fleet. China accounts for a third of world consumption. The seas around China have virtually no fish left but the commercial fishing fleet is still huge.
0wXmL TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
BgOax TIL the U. of Portsmouth found that poorly fitting bras can irreparably damage breast ligaments. Most bras only limit vertical movement, while breasts move up to 21cm in three dimensions during exercise. Many women wear the wrong size due to stigma, lack of awareness, or changes in size over time.