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TIL Microsoft receives up to $8 per Android device sold in royalties ≈ $3.4 billion in 2013

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neWeW TIL That there is an ultramassive Black Hole named S5 0014+81 that has a radius 1600 times greater than the distance between Earth and the Sun, and contains the mass of 40 Billion Suns! For perspective, that's 1,566,068,977,897,877,185,233,126,961 Toyota Corollas.
grmr8 TIL there's a US city in New Mexico name "Truth or Consequences" that changed its name due to a radio contest in the 50's.
OG7Y TIL that some birds can be born and exist as gynandromorphs, meaning that they have both genders as well as male and female appearances, divided laterally
Z8wAv TIL Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered". Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals. He went on to originate quantum theory and win a Nobel Prize.
v1Qj4 TIL after the release of his film Inland Empire, David Lynch campaigned for Laura Dern to get an Oscar nomination by camping on Sunset Boulevard with a 'For Your Consideration' billboard and a live cow.