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TIL a Guy Paid 10,000 Bitcoin for 2 Pizzas or $4,000,000 in today’s dollars!

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mRLx TIL language learning site Duolingo makes its money from having its users practice translating a real-world document (e.g from CNN). Duolingo has contracts these websites to translate stories and is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with this business model.
78Yxr TIL what Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) has been up to- he built a Wildfire-fighting Tank with Palmer Luckey (Oculus founder) and Jim Newton (Techshop founder).
wda6 TIL there is a Mongolian form of singing that creates a harmonic with the human voice. It allows one person to sing more than one tone simultaneously.
LkA9m TIL that in 2016, a Canadian man changed his name to "Above Znoneofthe" and ran in an Ontario election. On the ballot, his name would show as "Znoneofthe Above". Sadly, he didn't win...
w6m8 TIL all the different “colors” of tea depend on how they’re processed. They’re all from the same plant.