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TIL in 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90%+ is controlled by just six companies, self-identifying as “the big six.”

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QAle TIL When Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed first time on the Moon, they honored as a Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals…
d8k8r TIL of The Silurian Hypothesis, which is a thought experiment that assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago.
D1wLD TIL That Scrubs was filmed at a decommissioned hospital and that from time to time people would show up seeking medical care thinking it was a real hospital.
gJRD TIL that Colonel David Stirling, founder of the SAS, personally strangled 41 men.
R5D76 TIL in the Netherlands there is a chain of restaurants called 'Brownies & Downies'. The majority of the work force has Down syndrome (link in Dutch).