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TIL, Microsoft makes $2 billion a year from Android

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wDvY TIL a person tries to jump off the George Washington Bridge every 3.5 days, and NYPD officers routinely talk people out of it.
PYpEJ TIL Einstein failing a math exam is a myth. He failed the entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnic because he did poorly on botany, zoology and language sections.
NXdGN TIL Sloth babies usually survive if they lose their grip on their mom and fall but sometimes, the mother sloth doesn’t want to go on the ground to pick the baby up because she'd risk being seen by predators.
P140e TIL T.E. Lawrence's (Lawrence of Arabia) death in a motorcycle accident made one of his doctors study what he saw as the unnecessary loss of life by motorcycle despatch riders through head injuries which led to the increased use of crash helmets by both military and civilian motorcyclists
XBaD TIL in the song “Misunderstood”, John Petrucci wrote and played the guitar solo, and then reversed it. He then learned how to play this reversed version, and after recording it, reversed it once more. This resulted in a solo like the original but with a unique twist to the way the notes sounded.