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Today I learned that Toyota, car company, started in the apparel industry of making silk-weaving looms

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4XMN TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud
ADjMa TIL there's a material called FOGBANK that's used by the US Department of Energy that's so top secret and compartmentalized, that the government once actually "forgot" how to make it due to a lack of actual records and dwindling institutional knowledge
78AdL TIL in 2021, a man at a convenience store in Pennsylvania placed $2 on the counter for a Mountain Dew that was priced at 2 for $3, and walked out. The price for one Mountain Dew, however, was $2.29. The man was charged with a felony, sent to jail on a $50,000 bond, and faced up to 7 years in prison
OGGaY TIL dragonflies are the world’s best hunters with a kill rate of up to 95-97% (depending on source). The US military is studying their techniques.
XmyD TIL that the Sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the solar system.