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TIL that Craigslist generates more than $1 billion annually while having only about 50 employees.

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x6y5D TIL in 2001 Snoop Dogg was in a hardcore porn mixing 6 music videos & 5 porn scenes. It was such a success it topped charts for adult sales two weeks & became first hardcore porn on Billboard's music video sales chart. Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle set a trend where Hip-Hop artists advertised through porn
mxZVp TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
9rDB TIL That card games with “Ace High” became increasingly popular during the French Revolution where it was used as a symbol of the lower class rising in power above royalty.
P1yeG TIL That in the African language (Zulu) portions of The Lion King theme Circle of Life translates to‘ Here comes the lion, father, Oh yes it's a lion. A lion we're going to conquer, A lion and a leopard come to this open place." and "Look there is a Lion! Oh my God!" (repeated chorus)
aw6mZ TIL There was a cannon designed to simultaneously shoot two cannonballs connected with a chain to "mow down the enemy somewhat as a scythe cuts wheat". During tests the Gilleland cannon effectively mowed down trees, tore up a cornfield, knocked down a chimney and killed an unfortunate cow.