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TIL that Johnson & Johnson is a holding company for 250 separate, subsidiary businesses

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lom05 TIL that Helmut Kentler, a German psychologist fostered neglected children with pedophiles in an experiment with government support for decades. By the time his victims came forward, the statute of limitations for his actions had expired leaving his victims without justice or compensation.
gMA1D TIL in 2013, there was a train crash in Australia caused by millipedes. There were so many of them on the tracks that a train pulling into a station ended up losing friction from squishing so many of them and crashed into another train.
R5Wk8 TIL Naomi Campbell appeared in the music video for "Is This Love?" by Bob Marley, she was just 7 years old at the time
R7a81 TIL that Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim sounds so similar to Tom that he often does substitute voice-over work for computer games when Tom doesn't have the time.
0w4Av TIL over $900 billion has been spent “attempting to bring Matt Damon back from distant places” in fiction