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TIL 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

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YpLMP TIL That Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who was highly interested in languages, raised 6 young infants without any human interaction in an effort to discover the "natural" language of the human race. The only result was the death of the babies, as they needed human contact to survive
NlaN TIL John Munch, a detective played by Richard Belzer, has appeared on 10 different television shows ranging from Law & Order to Arrested Development to The Wire. These shows spanned 5 different networks, and the character has lasted over 20 years and 22 seasons.
kOmx4 TIL that no company on earth produces VCRs or VHS tapes anymore, not even for the novelty
OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.
X0gWj Til no child with type I diabetes survived until adulthood before 1922.