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TIL Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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gAZW TIL that Liverpool was once the “Second City of The British Empire” and for periods in the 19th century its wealth even eclipsed that of London.
dDDB8 TIL Apple simply chose to pay a $5.5 million fine every week for months in the Netherlands instead of obey orders from the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) to allow third-party payment systems in Dutch dating apps.
AnPn TIL that the Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek sold cocaine to all sides of WWI, making tremendous profits for the company and neutral Holland.
RQXl TIL that the word “ok” as we know it today, as a synonym for “alright”, is only about 175 years old. It was originally written as a joke that went viral in 1839 by a Boston editorial writer satirizing people’s bad grammar and use of abbreviations, and was an abbreviation for “oll korrect”.
5VJ0D TIL that the Barilla's pasta manufacturing plant in Parma (Italy) is the world's largest pasta production facility. It is 430,000 square foot/40,000 square meters large and produces 320,000 tons of pasta annually