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TIL Just 67% of Netflix users still pay for cable TV, compared to 80% in 2014 and 88% in 2010

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gMBa9 TIL: Massive ant swarms on the sidewalk are not ants gathering food or establishing a colony but actually "large scale" territorial ant wars between two colonies
6Eo48 TIL that alternative rock band Radiohead created companies with ludicrous names such as "Random Rubbish LTD" and "LLLP LLP" to deal with music income.
p8878 TIL In 1978, Charlie Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen, and his body was held ransom.
9wvLB TIL that Ma and Pa Kettle, from the book The Egg and I, were actually based on a real family, the Bishops.
EgxnV TIL of the Noble Train of Artillery. During the Revolutionary War, Henry Knox managed to transport 60 tons of artillery 300 miles in three months during the dead of winter. "This stupendous feat of logistics" was widely credited as a catalyst which broke the British siege of Boston.