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TIL: Only two companies have a higher credit rating than the US Government, Microsoft and Johnson&Johnson

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Verp TIL that 91,4 % of 9/11 survivors put off evacuation to shut down Computers or to go to the bathroom before evacuating.
9w4gD TIL of the estimated ~1100 eponymous "Stradavarius" instruments made by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) only about 58% are thought to survive.
x7BB TIL there is a form of Kryptonite, known as Pink kryptonite, that can turn Superman gay.
N9DP TIL that the dog who played Wishbone on the 1990s children’s show of the same name was named Soccer and was a veteran television commercial actor before appearing on the series. He lived from 1988 to 2001 and is buried on the Plano, Texas ranch where Wishbone was filmed.
ek7D TIL In 1961 the French Police attacked a demonstration of Algerians on a Paris bridge. In the aftermath, many of the wounded were intentionally thrown into the Seine River and left to drown by authorities; 70-200 died.