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TIL The majority of Bose shares is owned by M.I.T. making sure that the company keeps emphasis on research and education and not succumb to trends.

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J1pL4 TIL Jim Carrey won back-to-back acting Golden Globe awards (The Truman Show & Man on the Moon) without receiving an Oscar nomination for either of them and he still has never been nominated for an Oscar.
xkx0 TIL in spring 2012 Wired Magazine reported the NSA created a massive Utah data center where ‘Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.’ As well, NO ONE upvoted a submission by 'TheGreatWhiteHorse’ a year ago on this very topic.
R5Pe8 TIL of The Tale of Genji, one of the world's first novels, which was written by a Japanese noblewoman in the early 11th century
4knLR TIL: Brunei has a hotel that won the 2003 Presidential Suite award. A night's stay costs $23,000 and comes with 24 carat gold lining Italian marble, a Baccarat crystal chandelier, walk in closets the size of a studio apartment, a pool, and a bar. The room is popular and constantly booked.
mxQVE TIL After studying every prediction that Spock made, it was discovered that the the more confident he was in his predictions, the less likely they were to come true. When he described something as being "impossible," he ended up being wrong 83% of the time