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TIL out of the 1000 oldest companies in the world, more than half of them come from Japan.

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E1eyV TIL that Anakin Skywalker was at least minimally proficient in understanding and speaking Droid.
wnl8 TIL that J.K. Rowling was asked to use her initials instead of her full name (Joanne Rowling) because her publishers were worried that boys wouldn’t want to read a book written by a woman
4kNPJ TIL MegaUpload was relaunched as Mega.nz
7mRr TIL: There is a Seattle preschool located in a nursing home. It is called the Intergenerational Learning Center.
5Vwop TIL that birds can get divorced. Over 90% of avian species form socially monogamous pair bonds, but they may end the bonds by 're-mating' with a different partner after so-called 'divorce'. Divorce rate increases with male promiscuity and migration distance