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TIL Sony is primarily an insurance company in Japan and electronics are not their main source of income.

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PYw1E TIL that in order to hand draw all of the bubbles in The Little Mermaid, the manpower was outsourced to a China based firm, and the finished artwork of the bubbles was kept in a vault blocks away from the demonstration at Tiananmen Square in 1989. This almost delayed the production of the movie.
N76db TIL that the CIA was on a Quest For Mind Control. They used Torture, LSD And had a ‘Poisoner In Chief'
wonE1 TIL Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty later supported small farmers against the British military as Governor of New South Wales, and was overthrown in Australia's only military coup in history.
yVyPp TIL switzerland has a "marriage penalty" that leaves married, childless couples in a financial disadvantage
xVR7B TIL that daily or weekly streak doesn’t motivate people to continue doing something once it’s discontinued. Rather, it’s better to show the total number of days that you did something since the number will never be decreased and never demotivate users.