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TIL Microsoft Makes More Money From Samsung Than From Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox Combined

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5YlVD TIL Iran currently is the only country in the world that allows the sale of one's kidney for compensation (typically a payment); consequently, the country does not have either a waiting list or a shortage of available organs.
KOppJ TIL that in 16th-century England, the midwives' oath included not allowing the mother to falsely name the father of the child, not exchanging the child after birth, not using sorcery or incantations during the labour or delivery, and not dismembering the child or cutting or pulling their head off
bOwp TIL it’s Maryland’s 225th birthday. Happy Birthday Maryland!
gMGVX TIL at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics there was a "Savage Games" known as Anthropology Days staged. Native Americans and "ethnic tribesman" from many countries were shipped in to compete against each other with the purpose of displaying White superiority.
69GLm TIL a streamer named Kitboga began trolling scammers because his grandmother who suffered from dementia had been scammed multiple times.