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TIL AOL Time Warner lost $98.7 billion in 2002, still the worst annual loss in corporate history

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p8aDO TIL that In 2009, the film Braveheart was second on a list of "most historically inaccurate movies" in The Times.
7lOx TIL that we have more than the 5 basic senses (hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling, and tasting). Other senses include magentoception, the ability to detect magnetic fields, as well as chronoception, the sense of time passing.
logvG TIL The first expedition by two members of the French Academy of Sciences to determine the circumference of the Earth (and thereby the length of the meter) was hampered by the French Revolution, and the second one by the Napoleonic wars
YyvW TIL That trains in Japan are so punctual, that if they are even 5 minutes late, the passengers get a formal apology, and most times they’ll even get a “delay certificate.” Delays that are over an hour will also appear on the news.
OG4Ve TIL that english scientist Henry Cavendish discovered physical laws like Ohm's, Dalton's, or Charles's law and few others as first but they were not named after him because he didn't publish his notes and didn't tell his fellow scientists, propably due to being asocial and shy