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TIL that over half of the names of companies on the Fortune 500 list have disappeared since the year 2000.

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QxgM TIL that in an alternate DC Universe, Superman’s rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. He is “the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.”
dDloQ Til that there are between 70,000-80,000 plants that produce EDIBLE fruit, and in general most people only eat 20 different types of fruit.
Yj9r TIL Bette Nesmith was a typist in the 1950s. She invented liquid paper because she was fed up with having to scrap a whole page due to a typo. Later she sold her company for over 40 millions.
xV0o7 TIL that the Cimbris and the Teutones defeated Romans in 105BCE killing 80,000-120,000 Romans. This led to a second consulship for Gaius Marius (Julius Ceasars uncle) though he hadn't fulfilled the criteria of 10 year gap between consulships.
4KKa TIL When Switzerland refused to sell North Korea ski lifts, North Korea responded with calling it an instance of “serious human rights abuse”