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TIL Microsoft was making $5-15 on every Android phone sold because of patents, peaking at $2bil in 2013

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VBY9B TIL the world's shortest war happened in Zanzibar when the Sultan Khalid bin Bargash refused Britain's order to give Hamoud bin Muhammad his throne, the war started at exactly 9 a.m. and lasted 40 minutes.
nGZG TIL that word formations like LGBTQ and USA are technically not acronyms, they are “initialisms” or “alphabetisms”. NATO and laser are acronyms, because they are pronounced as words and not just as a string of letters.
0wMky TIL that the "hot hand fallacy" is itself a fallacy, caused by a common statistical error. Once correcting for that error, streaks or "hot hands" were found to exist in basketball.
lPer TIL that patients with traumatic injuries are less likely to die in hospital if they have alcohol in their blood, and the more alcohol, the more likely they are to survive. Burn injuries are the only exception.
nW7wd TIL that micro plastics are now everywhere in our body, including lungs, brain and blood. We consume on average a credit card worth of plastic every week. Also, thousands of chemicals generated by plastics and packaging industry are not studied yet