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TIL that the ‘Kronos Effect’ is a business concept that confirms the chilling effect monopoly and massive corporations have on technology. Constant concern about being overtaken leads the giant corporations to purchase and destroy all fledgling competition.

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MeGVK TIL That the Seinfeld theme is redo for every episode to mach the pacing of his monologue
Y7XGr TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK's birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating
78GWp TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.
Va6k TIL Christophen Langan (IQ 190-210) was regularly beaten as a child for being smarter than his stepfather (IQ unknown). At age 12 he began weight training and at 14 threw his stepfather out of the house. Langan worked mostly labor-intensive jobs and for over 20 years, as a bouncer on Long Island.
69nGl TIL that pandas in zoos either lose interest in mating or have no idea how to, so zoos will show them videos of other pandas procreating to both arouse and educate them. This is done in response to other unsuccessful attempts at encouraging reproduction, including giving the males Viagra