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TIL Australia is wider than the moon

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R5e98 TIL the richest independent film financier in the world is Steven Rales with a net worth of $11B. His most famous beneficiary is Wes Anderson. Rales began working with him on The Darjeeling Limited & has been a full-fledged producer on all of his major feature films since Moonrise Kingdom in 2012.
woj96 TIL about the Family Viewing Hour, a 1975 FCC policy that TV networks in the USA had to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of prime-time. The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a ruling by a federal court that it violated the First Amendment.
ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.
a8470 TIL that Tupac Shakur was not pronounced dead at the scene of his shooting in Las Vegas. He was taken to a hospital, where he died six days later.
P5yG TIL Costco sells approximately 60,000,000 rotisserie chickens every year.