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TIL that Microsoft has its own version of Linux. CBL-Mariner is used by the company's Azure cloud computing service.

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EO9o TIL that Duck Commander, the company owned by the Duck Dynasty family, has an “F” Better Business Bureau rating.
9w4mG TIL that a lottery scratch game called Cool Cash was pulled from the market after player complaints. The scratch card made ti that you get money if you got lower then the target temperature and people were saying they didn't get any money even though they got -6 or -7 and the temperature was -8.
9wO5Q TIL that men are 17 times more likely to be color blind than women.
BgNbx TIL that a sample of the wood and fabric from the Wright Flyer was carried to the surface of the Moon by the crew of Apollo 11. It commemorated the first flight, which happened only 66 years earlier.
0wwGM TIL someone lost a bitcoin wallet with 7,500 bitcoins by accidentally throwing out the wrong hard drive. Current value of those bitcoin is $55,125,000.