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TIL Jeffrey Skilling - the CEO mastermind of the Enron scandal - is now a free man and plans to start another energy company with his former colleagues.

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klK1 TIL a “Banana Equivalent Dose” is used to measure radiation. It is the potential radioactive dose due to naturally occurring radioactive isotopes by eating one average sized banana. Bananas are literally used for scale!
0dNAR TIL at least four actors who played the Marlboro Man in ads have died of smoking-related diseases
ANK57 TIL that King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia is the only ruling monarch in the world to be fluent in Czech.
loOMa TIL There is over 3 million horses in Mongolia, which is larger than the total human population of Mongolia, with 2% of the world’s horse population living in Mongolia.
RWe8 TIL When Disney bought LucasFilm, they also gained access to the “Holocron” created by Lucas. It contains lists of “17,000 characters in the Star Wars universe inhabiting several thousand planets over a span of more than 20,000 years.”