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TIL The entire nation of Qatar has the same IP address
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TIL That IKEA is legally a “nonprofit” organization — a designation which dramatically reduces its tax burden — despite reported global sales of €26bn (≈$28B) annually.
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TIL the Boeing 737 MAX, still being built new, runs on a pair of 16-bit CPUs to drive its autopilot and other related systems throughout the plane (incl. MCAS), using hardware that has not changed since 1996.
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TIL: There is a name for a belief system where you simply don’t care if there is a god or not
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TIL that Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, Batman Gotham Knight and FF7 among many other such items
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TIL that Mark Knopfler, lead singer and guitarist of the band, Dire Straits, wrote “Money For Nothing” after overhearing deliverymen in a New York appliance store complain about their jobs while watching MTV. Most of the lyrics were things they actually said.