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TIL that after the pandemic began, many investors purchased the wrong Zoom stock, getting shares in a defunct Chinese hardware company, instead of the calling app, Zoom Video Communications. This meant that the wrong Zoom stock price soared by 1800% before the SEC stepped in.

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jN0jR TIL the fastest-advancing solar technology as of 2016 was the Perovskite solar cell. This type of solar cell, made of a hybrid organic-inorganic lead or tin halide-based material, has the potential to achieve higher efficiency and lower cost than any solar cell currently commercially available.
78lKM TIL Despite having the same name, largely using the same menu, and operating mostly in the Northeast, all locations of both Kennedy Fried Chicken and Crown Fried Chicken are independently owned and operated and not franchises.
p8oW4 TIL Garry Kasparov doubted the abilities of female Grandmaster Judit Polgár, stating, "She is, after all, a woman. It all comes down to the imperfections of the feminine psyche. No woman can sustain a prolonged battle." He was later defeated by Polgár in 2002.
694Gw TIL about "A Boy's Scenario" from a Silent Hill visual novel for game boy advanced that revisited the events of the first game and you could play as a boy named "Andy", but you needed a peripheral that is no longer available thus becoming a forever lost portion of the game.
Q5gL TIL that the music played by the cantina band in Return of the Jedi was called “Jizz,” and the players were called “Jizz Wailers.” One of the instruments is called a “Jizz Box.”