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TIL, Microsoft makes $2 billion a year from Android
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TIL the word 'genericisation', when a brand name and the product have become so common and popular that it instead comes to represent the entire product category. E.g. Hoover, Bacardi, Tannoy
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TIL the character of “Phoebe” from Friends is based on the waitress Ursula from “Mad About You.” The producers liked Lisa Kudrow so much they made Phoebe a more humorous version of Ursula and decided they would be twins.
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TIL that wheelchair athletes with spinal injuries will sometimes intentionally injure themselves on the lower body (e.g. break a toe), causing their bodies to respond by raising blood pressure and enhaincing their performance. This practice has been banned as cheating.
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TIL that Stalin sent 22 assassins to kill Josip Broz Tito, dictator of Yugoslavia. The day Stalin died, a letter from Tito was found in his office; it said that Tito would only have to send one.
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TIL Stephen Fry claims the UK record for saying ‘fuck’ on television most times in one live broadcast.