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TIL Amazon warehouse workers walk between 7 and 15 miles each day as part of their daily shift

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vMK7 TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.
8adPK TIL there are at least 17 satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope. They are spy satellites pointed at Earth and Hubble is basically built from spare parts.
VMVBG Today I learned that 3 MIT computer scientists noticed the lack of peer review for submitted papers in phony journals, and created a fake CS paper software to prove how fraud the organizations were. It worked.
POpn TIL Companies that appear on the TV Show Shark Tank have to give away 5% of their companies equity or 2% Royalties.
v4r TIL that in 2010 only 33 people have been murdered in Norway. On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik went on a rampage and killed 77 people in one day.