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TIL if you pay $400, the Better Business Bureau will give you an A rating

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oBJ8K TIL John D. Rockerfeller once had an apprenticeship making $16 per month & his dream as a kid was to make $100,000. His personal fortune ended up being $1.4 billion by 1937 which makes him the wealthiest person in recent history.
AD9Rn TIL that the feral hog population in Texas is so bad that they'd have to kill 70% of all existing hogs each year in order to keep it from getting worse
Z8Vo4 TIL that George Lucas told a collaborator that his plan for the ending of Return of the Jedi was to have Luke become the new Darth Vader and destroy the Rebel Fleet. The collaborator liked the idea. Lucas told him he’d only been joking.
NX8pe TIL the Cuyahoga River was so badly polluted by companies spilling oil on it that the river repeatedly burned, the last time was in 1969, sparking an environmentalist movement to clean up the river.
ADJQB TIL that before become a musician, Kanye Omari West was a visual artist whose early work have been valued at $16k-$23k by Antiques Roadshow