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TIL that GM and Ford each pay their CEOs about as much as the total combined salaries of Toyota’s entire executive team.

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podZ TIL that the 3DS Remake of “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” has the same bugs and glitches as the original N64 version.
QJv6E TIL the Aral Sea - formerly the 4th largest lake on Earth - no longer exists; the rivers that once fed it were diverted in the 1960s for Soviet irrigation projects. The polluted seabed is known today as the Aralkum Desert.
XEOPj TIL James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose the super spy's name based on the fact that he "wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of."
gyLW TIL “Orang” in Orangutan does not refer to the color orange, but rather the Indonesian word for “person”.
P170n TIL that bacon and eggs weren't considered breakfast foods until the 20's, when Sigmund Freud's nephew was hired by a packing company to create a marketing campaign to increase bacon sales.