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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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79pp TIL that no country in the world has a lower life expectancy than the the countries with the highest life expectancy in 1800.
gMEbW TIL that Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi has a sensory condition called synesthesia that allows him to visualize music.
BrjXb TIL in 2017, a black labrador got their own photo in the Stafford High School yearbook. Alpha, the service dog of Andrew Schalk, would alert him if his blood sugar got too low; he even had his own school ID
KO5P6 TIL that the USA used to have a colorful, cold weather parrot known as the Carolina Parakeet that lived throughout the Midwest, Plains and Eastern States. It became categorized as extinct in 1920. Deforestation, hunting, and its use in fashion killed it off.
XE8Ak TIL about the USS Oriskany Fire wherein a sailor panicked after accidentally igniting a magnesium flare then tossing it back into the locker filled with 250 flares. This resulted in the death of 44 with 156 injured and nearly sank the aircraft carrier