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TIL The entire nation of Qatar has the same IP address

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b5GQ TIL That IKEA is legally a “nonprofit” organization — a designation which dramatically reduces its tax burden — despite reported global sales of €26bn (≈$28B) annually.
4k6OX 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.
aNRN TIL: There is a name for a belief system where you simply don’t care if there is a god or not
Wk68d TIL that Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, Batman Gotham Knight and FF7 among many other such items
N7VZE 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.