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TIL In 1925, General Electric, Phillips, & other light bulb manufacturers colluded against consumers & created the 'Phoebus Cartel'. The Cartel conspired to reduce the 1925 light bulb life expectancy from 2500 Hours down to only 1000 Hours & at the same time, to increase the Price Per Bulb.

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OLD7 TIL Albert Einstein Was An Early Opponent of Racial Segregation, And Had Many Close Friendships With African American Civil Rights Icons
16e4V TIL in Nov 2014, a stray Ecuadorian dog named Arthur tagged along with a Swedish adventure racing team during a grueling 435 mi jungle race. He swam rivers and trudged through mud beside them. After the finish, Mikael Lindnord adopted him and brought him home to Sweden.
gMayA Around 1 million people in Ireland—as well as 20,000 people in the United States—can speak Irish. It’s an ancient and unfamiliar-looking language in the Celtic group, making it a linguistic cousin of other ancient languages like Welsh, Scots, Manx, and Breton. To English speakers though, it’s a tough language to master. It has a relatively complex grammar that sees words inflected in an array of different contexts ignored in English. It uses a different word order from English that places the verb, rather than the subject, at the head of the clause. And it uses an alphabet traditionally comprising just 18 letters, so words are often pronounced completely differently from what an English speaker might expect.
8a6nP TIL there is no constitutional requirement for a U.S. State to hold presidential elections. A State legislature can theoretically just handpick its presidential electors.
LQbR9 TIL before 2001, on 9/11 four aircraft crashes and 1 disappearance happened in different years, resulting in 221 deaths and 16 missing combined