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TIL Planned Obsolescence Is A Legal Policy Used Among Corporations That Suggests Intentional Manufacturing Of Nondurable Products

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R7547 A helium balloon on the moon might as well be made of lead. For any balloon to stay aloft in any atmosphere, the gas inside it must be lighter than the surrounding air.
5Yam8 TIL George Washington's "Prayer at Valley Forge" never happened as he was not particularly religious.
oBQAY TIL that Cacao trees may actually live up to 200 years. Interestingly, they produce beans for just 25 years of their lifespan. It takes about a year for a cocoa tree to produce enough pods to make just about 10 small-sized chocolate bars.
GBlG TIL Albania’s economy was wrecked in the 90s when 2/3rds of the pop. was lured into govt-backed pyramid schemes which then failed. The chaos led to gangs seizing military arms and the govt. allowing citizens to arm themselves from armories. Gangs took over cities & navy ships as civil war broke out.
M7yBK TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.