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TIL about Cargill, the largest company in the USA, that NGO Mighty Earth called "Three worst company in the world" that drives "the most important problems facing our world"

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neV5r TIL a guy made $1,000,000 by selling each pixel on a 1000 x 1000 pixel web page for $1 a pixel. The Million Dollar Homepage was created in 2005 to raise money for his university fees. The inventor went on to create a company today valued at $250m.
OG8VR TIL that match fixing got so out of control in Canadian soccer that one pro match ended early after the home team’s attempts to score an own-goal were repeatedly thwarted by the away team
PKQG TIL that you can dial 911 in Australia and you still connect to emergency’s 000
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