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

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4XPGb TIL that condor can soar for 100 MILES without flapping its wings.
rww4 TIL there are 62 episodes of Breaking Bad. The 62nd element in the periodic table is Samarium, which is used to treat lung cancer
JYvJ4 TIL that Hershey's designed a customized chocolate bar for the troops during WW2 called "D ration bar". It was so thick that soldiers had to shave slices off with a knife before chewing on it. By the end of the war, more than 3 billion ration bars had been produced.
9epD TIL There’s a biker gang who sit in courtrooms to help sexually abused kids feel relaxed when giving evidence.
78rAx TIL that Australian hackers targeted NASA in 1989 with one of the first computer worms, and arguably the first ever instances of "hacktivisim" with the "Worms Against Nuclear Killers" (or WANK) worm.