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TIL: A southern France firefighters' department statistic attributes 16% of local bushfires to cigarette litter thrown out of moving vehicles

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J1PwQ Today I learned of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles (ramen noodles) and the creator of the brands Top Ramen and Cup Noodles.
yVXlp TIL China hadn't discriminated homosexuality for the most part of the history until homophobia was brought into it during the westernization movement starting from late Qing dynasty.
d8Dwj TIL, George Carlin starred in a TV sitcom eponymously titled "the George Carlin show."
VMRL4 TIL the first person to stream their life on the internet was Jennifer Ringley aka Jennicam, a 19 year old woman who from 1996, broadcasted her life from her college dorm room 24/7. At its peak, she got 7 million hits per day, a significant proportion of the internet at the time.
a8eQy TIL that when Radio Shack in 1977 planned its first personal computer, the $599 TRS-80, it built 3,500 units. The company had never sold that many of anything at that price, and planned to use the computer for inventory in its 3,500 stores if it failed. More than 200,000 were sold by 1980.