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TIL Yang (Lenovo’s CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo’s employees. He did same thing again in 2013.

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6OG8 TIL that killer bees were created by a Brazilian scientist to create more honey, but they create less and are highly aggressive.
5VrGr TIL Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor
XEjJk TIL: lakes near ocean coasts have a slightly higher salt content because of wind. Wind transfers salt off the ocean to fresh water lakes, altering the ecosystem and hostng unique forms of microbial life
R7yp1 TIL The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU) was a federation of tenant farmers formed in July 1934 in Poinsett County with the immediate aim of reforming the crop-sharing system of sharecropping and tenant farming.
Ogne TIL that in Russia’s Kronotsky Nature Reserve. There is a bear population that huffs jet fuel from old barrels until they pass out.