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

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DwrD TIL in Dubai you can push a fridge magnet to order a pizza delivered to your door
v1LBB TIL of Eugene Bostwick, a retired Texas farmer who kept taking in dogs that people abandoned at the dead-end street near his horse barn; he would feed the dogs & take them to the vet to get spayed & neutered. He built a "dog train" in order to take all his dogs out at the same time with his tractor.
7rJxM TIL of Operation Wrath of God, or why Israeli Mossad agents are basically the badass spies we all thought only existed in movies. Motorcycle assassinations, silencers, car bombs, the works.
OGEg4 TIL about the Japanese term Yaoyorozu No Kami (Eight Million Gods). The idea behind it is that there are countless gods, believed to be present in everything—weather, geography, landscapes, and even in things like tools, rice, kitchens and toilets.
vVxR TIL 130lbs of dioxin were dumped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war. (3oz in New York’s water supply would be enough to wipe out its entire population.)