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TIL - Business magazine cover stories usually mark the end of big changes in a company's stock performance, not reliable signals for future trends.

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P1jjJ TIL about the radiation version of banana for scale
0dJVA TIL that -40 degrees is the only temperature that is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius
VBENm TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down
PYxAO TIL EA bought out exclusive rights to be the sole producer of NFL games under the Madden Franchise. This is because its competitor, 2k, released NFL 2k5 for $19.99 and was considered one of the best football games of all time. EA ensured 2k could never make another football game again.
R7n4w TIL James Smithson sent the US $500,000 (1.5% the federal budget) in the 19C to found an institution "for the creation and diffusion of knowledge." The Smithsonian is today the world's largest museum complex; all are free of charge and open to the public, and James Smithson never visited the US.