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TIL that founders of Youtube imagined it as a dating site and they even had a slogan for it: "Tune in, Hook up"

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xVPpD Today I learned that Bryan Ware created the Crayon Initiative that collects used crayons from restaurants and melts them down to make new crayons for children's hospitals.
xVgED TIL that Sun isn't center of the solar system and actually orbits the real center - all objects in our system (especially Jupiter) influence the barycenter which planets and sun orbits.
p8lZZ TIL the usage of diammonium phosphate allowed Marlboro to free base the nicotine in tobacco, allowing for more efficient delivery. Marlboro kept this process secret for many years, as freebasing is the same process used to produce crack cocaine from normal cocaine.
wLwPP TIL: Obesity is associated with job absenteeism and lower productivity at work costing employers $506 per obese employee per year.
9Y5ZM TIL In 2011 Toronto, ON installed bike lanes called Jarvis bike lanes at a cost of $59,000 CAD, but shortly after election in 2012 Mayor Rob Ford ordered the lanes removed at a cost of $200,000 CAD.