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TIL: 6 companies control 90 percent of what we read, watch and listen to.

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GAn61 TIL a minority of the world's languages are "ergative"—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we'd say "SHE likes HER" & "SHE walks"; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it'd be "SHE likes HER" but "HER walks"
9Y7nm TIL about The Fortress of the Bears (aka Admiralty Island), an island off the coast of Alaska that has the highest concentration of brown bears in North America. The ~1600 bears outnumber people 3 to 1.
YpWad TIL: From 1926 until 1962 the American Public Health Association recommended that indoor swimming pools used by men adopt nude bathing policies and that indoor swimming pools used by women require swimsuits "of the simplest type"
lo7E1 TIL a father of five worked 23 years as a custodian for Boston College so all of his children could attend the university for free. They all graduated and together saved nearly $700,000 in tuition.
Z8oo TIL NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, the largest open air building in the world, is so big that it has its own weather. Air condition must be used all the time otherwise it may rain inside.