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TIL the family dog has a bigger carbon footprint than an SUV

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Vb5k TIL that, to raise money and awareness for his revolutionary new infant incubator, Alexandre Lion sold tickets to “child hatcheries”, where spectators could watch incubated premies being cared for in a futuristic nursery
aAey TIL that for unknown reasons, during a bidding war with a consortium of tech firms for Nortel’s 6,000 patents, Google bid $1,902,160,540, then $2,614,972,128, and eventually $3.14159 billion (references to Brun’s constant, Meissel–Mertens constant, and pi)
rRp1y TIL of the Fan Meifuri Movement. In 1948, protests erupted in China as Americans pardoned known Japanese WW2 War Criminals. Fearing communist influence, the KMT cracked down hard against the protests. This in turn demoralized many nationalists with the KMT, aiding the CCP's victory in 1949.
ekpL TIL the Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Gameboy Color is banned in Saudi Arabia because “it promotes Zionism”
6EjwZ TIL: although their bodies were badly mangled from the effects of the high altitude / hypersonic orbiter breakup, forensic evidence has revealed that the Columbia Shuttle crew very likely died in seconds from rapid loss of pressure.