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TIL that Don King was charging Tyson 8k a week for towels

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P1WwZ TIL that Forrest Mars Sr., the person who turned Mars, Inc. into a candy empire, retired in 1973 at age 69 in Vegas. Seven years later, he founded Ethel M Chocolates out of boredom. The company would reached annual sales of 150M within a few year, and eventually got acquired back by Mars, Inc.
9Y8Km TIL during the 1930s as German anti-Semitism increased, there was a proposed plan to establish a Jewish colony 80% the size of modern Israel in outback Australia.
1a5vr TIL that in 2001, instead of selling 6 shares for 610,000 yen, a trader accidentally sold 610,000 shares for 6 yen, leaving his company $100 million dollars poorer.
kOXk5 TIL Taj Mahal turns pink at the dawn, white in noon and yellow in the dusk.
nWad7 TIL About the search for R. Sørnes' 4th astronomical clock. Best described as mechanical real-time models of the solar system, the self-taught farmer son from Norway - rebuffed by clock-makers in his youth - made some of the most complicated clocks in existence.