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TIL that Nokia has been in business since 1865.

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WkGdN TIL that the reason why Europeans gave Native Americans many diseases in the New World, but not vice versa, is not just because of Europe's population dense cities/towns, but also because the Europeans had animal agriculture.
x6x5b TIL Ruth Hana, the self-proclaimed "can lady", collected 1 million aluminum cans over a 30-year period, raising $75,000 for a variety of local charities. She then followed that up by collecting 1 million pop tabs before donating them to the Ronald McDonald House at the age of 92.
4Y6o TIL that the Wachowskis asked Warner Bros. for $80 million to make The Matrix but only got $10 million approved, so they decided to spend all of that money on the opening sequence. They showed it to the Warner executives who were so impressed that they gave them their original budget.
XEgXD TIL A specie of jellyfish is named Bazinga inspired from the show The Big Bang Theory
d8PL8 TIL that on the night that MTV launched, the opening sequence for the network featured footage of the Apollo 11 launch, simply because it was public domain and free to use. It was that opening sequence that connected MTVs image with astronauts, including the Video Music Award “moon man” trophy.