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TIL Fox News owner also owns a porn empire.

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4XQ4R TIL On 19 November 2020, Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, was awarded Harvard University's 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award, which comes with a prize of US$150,000. She has passed the prize money to New Zealanders studying at the university.
nWkAP TIL the founding drummer for The Offspring was on trial for medical malpractice when he saved the life of a potential juror who went into cardiac arrest during the jury selection. Afterwards, the judge ruled a mistrial to avoid biases from any of the potential jurors who saw him save a life.
8a6LV TIL that some spiders create beautiful patterns in their webs of spirals, disc shapes or vertical lines; although there are several theories it’s not certain why they do it.
VBwQ TIL Danny Elfman (composers of such film scores as Alice in Wonderland, Beetlejuice, and the original Spiderman Trilogy) was actually Jack’s singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. You go Danny.
0wDQR TIL that a woman in Florida surgically implanted a Disney World MagicBand into her arm. MagicBands are used at the parks to keep track of tickets, purchases, and room keys. Disney now puts a "not intended for subdermal use" warning on all their MagicBands.