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TIL About The Billion Dollar Japanese Shrimp Ponzi Scheme

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4Ddg TIL 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
LA8Q TIL Pablo Neruda always wrote in green ink because he considered it the color of hope.
7rKdX TIL that when the ancient Marquesan people, who became Hawaiians, first sailed to Hawaii, they brought pigs, dogs, and chickens to eat. These fat, slow dogs that mainly ate fermented Taro root were called Poi dogs and were eaten and sometimes sacrificed and placed in ritual graves with children.
aWo9 TIL that if you are 7 feet tall, there is a 17% probability that you are in the NBA. Between 6'6 and 6'8, that probability is just .07%
J1YgB TIL that as a result of the "Baby Einstein" franchise of videos and books being named after Albert Einstein, royalties paid to his estate made Einstein one of the top five earning dead celebrities for a time.