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TIL: Pieces of Africa are embedded in the southeastern United States

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D1oxg TIL in 2000, Microsoft was ordered to split in two by the US government in an anti-trust suit. Microsoft appealed and eventually settled, agreeing to cease anti-competitive behaviour.
j6n5j TIL The Smoot–Hawley Act of '30 was an attempt to protect the US from foreign competition by imposing high tariffs. The consensus view among economists and historians is that the passage of the Act had, in fact, achieved an opposite effect to what was intended. It exacerbated the Great Depression
rrxM TIL that Bismuth has a half life a billion times longer than the universe
KOax4 TIL: Peacocks are ophiophagous, they eat snakes.
16RAr TIL that due to a former Irish crewman re-stealing his stolen booty, Welsh pirate 'Black Bart' believed all Irish were dishonest. When word got out about Barts prejudice, people he tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent in order to escape a life on the high seas.