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TIL that Elon Musk was ousted as CEO of PayPal because he insisted on switching from Unix based infrastructure to Windows

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pVGG TIL that according to moderate estimates, the Romans possibly lost over 40,000 men in a single day at the Battle of Cannae (216 BC), which may have accounted for somewhere between 5 to 10 percent of the total Roman male population during the late 3rd century BC period.
Br9ax TIL "Second Breakfast" is not just a LOTR meme, and is in fact tradition in many countries
p8awZ TIL Over 60 million cigarette butts have been collected on beaches making them the single greatest source of ocean trash.
YmJG TIL that Canada had a top secret list of suspected Communists they intended to detain indefinitely. If they tried to escape, they would be shot… one of the people on that list was Tommy Douglas - the founder of the current Healthcare and CPP programs.
GAR9N TIL That early model M-16s were so prone to jams and malfunctions, mostly due to the failure to ship them with cleaning kits and ammunition which fouled the operating mechanism, that the US military produced a comic book detailing proper field stripping instructions for the weapon.