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TIL Michael B. Jordan’s father is named Michael A. Jordan

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GZYE TIL Self checkout lanes not only do not save their customers time but usually take them even more time to check out than customers in standard checkout lanes
a8pvb Til- The division of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal (counting in 60s) system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC.
WoPY TIL that in 2009 Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” when confronted about the search engine’s privacy policies.
EgpAp TIL Microsoft reportedly paid $8–14 million to use The Rolling Stones’ "Start Me Up" in Windows 95 ads which was a perfect match for the brand new Start button.
9Mn6 TIL The success of Venice during the Middle Ages has been credited to its system of government which selected politicians by lottery