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TIL Nettflix uses pirate sites to determine what shows to buy.

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xV755 TIL of Sybil Ludington. At 16, she rode twice as far as Paul Revere, 40 miles overnight, to warn of an impending British attack during the American Revolutionary War.
1aRMD TIL Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish soldier who during WW2, over-dosed on amphetamines, lost his squad, laid in a ditch for a week after stepping on a land mine, then travelled over 250 miles on skis, was found alive only weighing 94 pounds. He went on to live another 45 years.
X0DgD TIL the state of Louisiana is named after King Louis XIV of France.
5V5e9 TIL Whitney Houston had a production company called BrownHouse, which produced films like The Princess Diaries and The Cheetah Girls
9JgQ TIL the Monkees started out in a TV show about a band that tried to be as good as the Beatles but failed. They then started making albums in real life and outsold the Beatles.