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TIL Fox News owner also owns a porn empire.

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RxAj TIL that a girl name Genie was isolated from society at birth. When she was rescued 13 years later, she had the mental age of a one year old.
KmV6 TIL in 1965, two astronauts in orbit reported: “We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit…I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit.”
GJ54 TIL five years into their ten-year plan, editors of the original Oxford English Dictionary had only reached the word ‘ant’
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MeWY8 TIL that “lead” pencils have never actually contained lead, but the Romans used lead as a writing tool.