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TIL Despite the release of Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 - Windows XP still maintained almost 1/3rd of the OS market share in 2014.

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PpKO TIL The hottest curry on earth is a British curry made in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Known as ‘The Widower’ it is so hot it can make you hallucinate.
wRko TIL In 1984, a 1-year-old received a heart transplant from a baboon but ended up dying 21 days later due to rejection. When questioned with why a baboon and not a primate more closely related to humans, the surgeon said he didn’t believe in evolution.
o4jo TIL when the West Virginia was raised after being sunk in the attack in Pearl Harbor the bodies of three sailors were found in an airtight hold along with evidence that the men had survived sixteen days after the attack.
kOkbe TIL the runway of the Gibraltar International Airport is intersected with the main road heading towards Spain, called Winston Churchill Avenue, which has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs.
Z8W54 TIL a bruin bear was found on a ledge of a California bridge. Volunteers strung a net under the bear; officials shot it with a tranquilizer dart, nudged it with a pole onto the net, lowered it to the ground & steered it into the wild. The bridge where the bear was found is called "Rainbow Bridge."