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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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O68L TIL that there are more scientists named “Steve” who support evolution, than there are scientists who support Creationism altogether
xV5dD TIL approximately 10 percent of the internet is kept secure using a wall full of lava lamps
d8Ner TIL about Sgt. William Carney, the first African American to win the Medal of Honor
a87WA TIL of Vitalis of Gaza, a monk who paid prostitutes his daily wages to dissuade them from the profession. The women he served later carried him to his grave, processing him with candles and lanterns. The Catholic Church venerates him as the Patron Saint of Prostitutes and Day Laborers.
xVAlw TIL Jeanne Barret, expert botanist, was the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe. She enlisted in Bougainville expedition (1766-1769) disguised as a man and supposedly as her boyfriend's valet, the botanist Philibert Commerson