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TIL, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.

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jNDaQ TIL about Freedom Ship, a traveling floating city concept imagined with the primary objective of housing 60,000 residents to avoid taxes.
MAXV TIL the disappearance of Saturday Morning Cartoons is due to an FCC mandate requiring networks to air educational programming on Saturday mornings. Many networks abandoned cartoons altogether for news programming
R59Vw TIL that deaths related to heart attacks and heart disease are statistically more common on Christmas and New Year's days.
jNY1M TIL that a 12-minute Hobbit "movie" was made in 1967 because the production company was about to lose the film rights unless a movie was released. It was produced quickly and cheaply, released on the very last day the rights would expire. Tolkien had to pay $100,000 to get the rights back.
6E18W TIL New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine, published between 1935 and 1947, was the first American comic-book series to feature solely original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips and the first publication of the company that would become DC Comics