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TIL Americans throw out over 400,000 smart phones per day, on average.

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XE0nP TIL that during his military Service, Future President George HW Bush was shot down along with 8 others when they attacked a small island called Chichi Jima. All the other pilots were cannibalized by Japanese soldiers, and Bush was only able to escape by being picked up by a submarine.
LBlZ TIL some historians blame Atari for the Video Game Crash of 1983. Atari figured anything would sell, and even tried to produce a Rubik’s cube video game.
R7KR9 TIL the term "in a New York minute" was first recorded in the mid-twentieth century in Piney Woods, Texas.
pjaO TIL Bob Ross received hundreds of pieces of fan mail each week, and if someone who wrote to him often stopped writing, he would personally call them to see if they were ok.
QJo6M TIL that Nokia made face masks and respirators for 60 years, and worked as a double agent for the Pentagon against the Soviet Union.