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TIL that 90% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from a contract with Google to be Firefox’s default search engine

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X0GJQ TIL that Marie Curie was a cougar, almost costing her her second Nobel Prize
16WWP TIL that Pennsylvania once had Moose, Cougars, and a few other animals that use to call this patch of land home.
MNJW TIL “basket case” is used to describe helplessness rather than insanity, and originally described the most badly maimed WWI soldiers who had to be transported in baskets
BGVd TIL A man named Henry Magee killed a cop who was executing a no knock warrant in Texas. Ultimately, he was not charged (with killing the cop) because he thought someone was breaking into his home. In Texas, you can use deadly force to defend self and property.
D1gOe TIL Rapper G. Dep killed a man in 1993. Plagued by guilt, he tried to confess to the crime in 2010. The police did nothing. So two weeks later he went back to the station to confess again. The second time they matched his account to a cold case and charged him with murder.