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TIL At one point, 50% of CDs manufactured worldwide were AOL trial discs.

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1aJr7 TIL in the 1960s, two doctors made a taxidermy female turkey to see what attracted a male. They discovered almost nothing stopped the male’s advances, even when the female’s wings, feet, and legs were removed. The male even made attempts to a stick with female’s head on it.
v17M8 TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it "The Iron Harvest". They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.
epPVJ TIL About 5 Amazing Solopreneurs Who Accomplished Nothing By Age 30
yVOM TIL Hunter S. Thompson terrorized Jack Nicholson on his birthday by playing the sound of a pig being eaten alive by bears and shooting at his house.
ek8J TIL the “half your age plus seven” rule for dating has been around since at least 1901.