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TIL that when Facebook moved into their new office that used to belong to Sun Microsystems, Mark Zuckerberg didn't replace Sun Microsystem's sign. Instead, he flipped it over and put Facebook's name on the front because "it demonstrates what can happen when you're on top but fail to innovate".

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9DvM TIL In France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called l’oeuf, which is French for “egg.” When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it “love.”
QD4e TIL Native American groups have talked about creating their own team since a Mohawk lacrosse team competed for Canada in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Stew Young last led a movement to create North American Indigenous Olympic team in 2006.
r0RW TIL in response to rising chlamydia rates in Norway, a sex education charity hired a 19-yo student to wear a giant penis costume and squirt people with golden confetti - “If I can do a good thing for others, just by being a dick, there is nothing better…”
Brk0K TIL that Christopher Nolan was so secretive about Interstellar that he initially asked Hans Zimmer to compose the score with just a one-page story about a father who leaves his child to do an important job instead of giving him the script. It contained two lines of dialogue: "I'll come back & when?"
m91y TIL During Islam’s Golden Age, scientists were paid the equivalent of what pro athletes are paid today.