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8ymb TIL there is a Canadian cartel which controls roughly 70% of the world’s maple syrup production. It allocates production, sets prices, and maintains a strategic reserve of 40 million pounds of syrup to protect against market fluctuations.
mLro TIL the on-line cheating website, AshleyMadison.com, was named after the two most popular names for baby girls in 2002, the year it was founded.
9LjB TIL that someone became an actual millionaire by selling virtual real estate in the game ‘Second Life’