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TIL 90% of Mozilla’s revenue is from Google

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k5b4 TIL: Black men make up 5% of population, 50% of murder convictions
X0GBj TIL: In 1920, 70 years before the birth of the European Union, someone proposed the creation of the P.A.M. "The New Europe with Lasting Peace," which aimed to divide Europe "into slices" using a canton system and included a common flag, monetary system, time zone, postal service and language
N7vA8 TIL only one word has ended the Scripps Spelling Bee twice: "eczema."
gj59 TIL that November 9th is known as “Fateful Day” by German historians because so many important events happened on this date
wZno TIL that Chuck Jones created Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner as a parody of chase cartoons like “Tom and Jerry”, not expecting that its purposefully ridiculous contraptions and nonsensical cartoon physics would make it popular.