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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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jN9eM TIL that Child Pornography in Japan was First Made Illegal in June of 2014. A 1-Year Grace Period of Lax Enforcement Followed.
LLG9 TIL that in 1964, a man placed himself in a box and had himself air-freighted from London to Australia because he couldn’t afford the airfare. He nearly died of dehydration.
Egrao TIL there are 31 US states with a county named Washington (the most common county etymology), but Washington state isn’t one of them
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0dyAL TIL In Kazakhstan, there are 15456 square metres / 166372 square feet of arable land per person, that's approximately 12 Olympic-sized swimming pools per person.