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TIL that 8 of the top pharmaceutical companies in America spend more on marketing than on research and development

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R7Zpl TIL In Germany you can be imprisoned for one year for insulting someone in public
0dgV1 TIL that the 2013 Chevrolet Impala was the last American automobile to have a bench seat in the front.
Vaj4 TIL Max Martin, a 43-year-old Swede, has co-written more #1 singles than anyone since the Beatles. His credits include “I Want It That Way”, “Oops!… I Did It Again”, “It’s My Life”, “Since U Been Gone”, “I Kissed a Girl”, “Shake It Off”, and much more.
nW8Q7 TIL that in 2011, an entire country lost internet access for 12 hours after a 75-year-old woman accidentally broke a fiber-optic line with her shovel.
KRRE TIL of a 1993 proposal to build a giant advertising billboard in outer space that would appear roughly the same size and brightness as the moon. The project didnt meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.