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TIL that Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame, had an affair with the mother of the founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, who helped make reggae music internationally popular and recorded some of its biggest names

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AGGB TIL during World War II American factory workers produced more than twice their German counterparts and had four times the output of Japanese workers prompting industrialist Donald Douglas to observe, “Here’s proof that free men can out-produce slaves.”
4kvQb TIL that Walt Disney's 1928 animated short "Steamboat Willie" featuring Mickey Mouse is now part of the public domain after having finished its 95th year as a copyrighted work. This means that this specific version of MM is freely available to use in new creative works across all artistic mediums.
9xlM TIL Microsoft filed a patent in 2011 for media DRM based on monitoring users with cameras connected to a video game console.
5gnB TIL 70% of all red meat consumed worldwide is goat meat.
79OM TIL Underneath Beijing there is a city spanning 33 square miles called Dixia Cheng. It was built in the 1970’s due to rising tensions between China and the Soviet Union.