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TIL Elon Musk was ousted from Paypal when he wanted to move everything from Unix to Microsoft.

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LkjXv TIL that in the 80s soda companies started trying to displace coffee as the main breakfast drink.
7OVr TIL that there’s only 24 GPS satellite’s orbiting the earth, for all of mankind.
yVO1M TIL that a 'broken heart' can actually be fatal. "Acute emotional stress can cause the left ventricle of the heart to be 'stunned' or paralyzed, causing heart attack-like symptoms including strong chest, arm or shoulder pains, shortness of breath, loss of consciousness, nausea and vomiting."
gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again
l9W1 TIL the buzzing sound bees make isn’t actually their wings beating, but rather the bee vibrating its flight muscles.