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TIL that it used to cost 4X as much to send a SMS than it did to send the data from the Hubble Telescope

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OomO7 TIL Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a dirt poor Scottish kid who immigrated to the U.S. where he became the richest man in the world. He gave away $350 million, nearly 90 percent of the fortune he accumulated through the railroad and steel industries.
rR1BW TIL that in 2006, 75% of Chinese didn't know that sharks were killed to make shark fin soup. But now, 91% of Chinese support a nationwide ban, thanks to activism work by Yao Ming and others.
WkGaB TIL That Blowing into an NES cartridge Did Absolutely Nothing