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TIL 90% of Mozilla’s revenue is from Google
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TIL that Fiji water company ran the slogan “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities’ tap water.
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TIL the rotary engine was so superior that Mazda built the first and only Japanese car to win at 24 hours at Le Mans. The engine was subsequently banned by the racing organization that ran Le Mans.
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TIL red M&Ms were not sold for 10 years over concerns that red food dye was a carcinogen
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TIL about the weirdest ever state in Europe, Neutral Moresnet. It was a condominium between Belgium and Germany for 100 years, was 900 acres large, formed a quadripoint border, had Esperanto as an official language, and only existed because of Zinc and Brass Mine.
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TIL that from 2013 to 2016, US physicians accepted $24.94 billion from pharmaceutical companies, in nearly 41 million transactions, and there is a searchable web database where you can find out if your doctor has accepted any payments, from whom, how much, and the nature of the payment.