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TIL Microsoft held a mock funeral for iPhone because they thought the windows phone 7 was going to smash apple in sales

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0d7B5 TIL that one of the strategies proposed for raising the Titanic before it fully deteriorates was to fill it full of ping pong balls.
x6v7D TIL in 2015 Burger King tried to collaborate with McDonald’s to make a McWhopper, a burger combining ingredients from the Whopper and Big Mac, but McDonald’s declined the offer.
6E6EW TIL that "right-wing" and "left-wing" labels originated from the French Revolution, in which anti-royalists sat on the left of the French National Assembly hall and pro-royalty sat on the right.
b9neE TIL that the number 8 is such a lucky number in China that the Chinese government scheduled the Beijing Olympics to begin 8 seconds after 8:08 on 8/8/2008.
lk4G TIL That Samurai would frequently change their own names to reflect what allegiances they had