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TIL Disney paid $75 Million for rights to show Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’

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Ge45 TIL that pinball was illegal for 30 years in many major US cities. Politicians thought that pinball was a game based on chance and therefore must have been a mob-run scam. The ban ended when a master pinball player was called in front of a committee to demonstrate his skill.
W79LN TIL The US doesn’t have an official language.
vPKnK TIL in 2007 a Ford Fusion that was modified to run on hydrogen fuel cells set the land speed record for fuel cell ground vehicles with a speed of 207.297 mph
0w8WA TIL of a 1960's "Panic" that teens were getting high off Peanut Butter and Mayo
6EQ4Y TIL when you lose weight, you actually breathe, sweat and pee out most of the weight.