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TIL I Don't Care was the name of a long distance telephone company started to capture 3% of the market of people who responded they didn't care which carrier was used.

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grOPb TIL that the reason Kratos from God of War calls his son "boy" is because developers "couldn’t think of a good name for the kid". The character just didn’t have a name for part of the development process.
JYxZv TIL Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" was inspired by an older woman Stewart describes as a sexual predator who took his virginity at a jazz festival when he was 16. Though his record company thought Maggie May had no commercial potential, it went on to become #1 in the US and the UK in October, 1971.
rRly TIL There is a robot that is 4m tall, has a Gatling gun, and is controlled by your Iphone that you can purchase for $1.35m
VK6p TIL there is a modern-day Rosetta Stone that intends to be an archive of human languages called the Rosetta disk. While it is only 3 inches in diameter, it has over 1,500 languages etched onto its surface. It has over 13,000 pages of information which need to be magnified 1000 times to be read.
bpkQ TIL The Man rejected on UCLA jumbotron marriage proposal that made national news, Was told by his girlfriend that one reason she couldn’t marry him was that his penis was too small.