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TIL in 2015, Google dropped their old motto “Don’t Be Evil”

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YpPvB TIL Alan Rickman's final role was narrating a tortoise eating a strawberry
8jW4 TIL that If the earth would be a 40 year old guy, humans would have been using tools for a week and a half, and just left Africa 8 hours ago to settle around the globe
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.
gM0QX TIL Princeton has a Professor of Hip Hop teaching special topics in hip hop dance with a focus on Breaking
PY6aZ TIL in 1984 javelin thrower Uwe Hohn threw a distance of 104.8m and became the first and only athlete in history to break the 100m barrier. Shortly afterwards some changes in the design of javelins were implemented and the records had to be restarted, turning his mark into an "eternal world record".