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TIL when AOL used to charge users an hourly fee for access to their services, they would add 15 seconds to the time a user was connected to the service and round up to the next whole minute (for example, a person who used the service for 12 minutes and 46 seconds would be charged for 14 minutes).

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x6EE5 TIL that the desert scenes in the movie Ishtar were filmed in the actual Sahara Desert, instead of the Southwestern U.S., because Columbia's parent company Coca-Cola had money in Morocco it could not repatriate.
wM7P TIL Malaria is thought to be responsible for the death of about half of all people who ever lived.
NXG7b TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2
8ewQZ TIL that Walmart tried and failed to establish itself in Germany in the early 2000s. One of the speculated reasons for its failure is that Germans found certain team-building activities and the forced greeting and smiling at customers unnerving.
KOp0Q TIL the Navajo Nation in Arizona observes daylight savings time while the rest of the state does not, creating the “Daylight Saving Donut”