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TIL that the Catholic church owns a billion dollar media firm that sells pornography and erotica.

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YpVGd TIL a memorial to faithful slaves was installed in 1900 in Fort Mill, SC.
Xo86 TIL carrots don’t actually improve eyesight. This lie was crafted by the British in WWII to explain their soldiers’ super human accuracy at night and to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the real reason for their accuracy: they had developed radar.
epWxn TIL of Sinis, a mythological bandit slain by Theseus. Sinis would fool his victims by asking for their help in bending pine-trees to the ground, and then release the tree, catapulted the victim into the air
Z8gKQ TIL that there are ant colonies that span hundreds of miles
we6P TIL Nintendo collaborated with Sony to make “Nintendo PlayStation”, a CD based SNES, in 1988. Nintendo dropped Sony, chose Philips, and Sony developed Play Station independently.