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TIL that CPU manufacturing is so unpredictable that every chip must be tested, since the majority of finished chips are defective. Those that survive are assigned a model number and price reflecting their maximum safe performance.

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W4jo TIL that in EverQuest, the sale of valuable items for both in-game platinum and for actual money allows exchange rates to be worked out. The BBC reported in 2002 that EQ was the 77th richest country in the world, between Russia and Bulgaria, with a higher GDP per capita than both China and India.
nwM9 TIL Best Buy used to have a fake internal website that looked exactly like their actual internet website, but with marked up prices, so they could price gouge in-store customers.
78JMP TIL that Scandinavians settled Greenland 300 years before native Greenlanders did
4GLJ TIL of Guenter Verheugen, the guy who got mobile phone manufacturers to adopt MicroUSB as the universal standard for charging/connectivity.
ZKkR TIL David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, fought so hard to prevent FM Radio from succeeding that the inventor of FM Radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, commit suicide because of emotional and financial distress…brought on by RCA lawsuits.