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

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rNO5o TIL crystal methamphetamine (ice) is the most commonly abused narcotic in Hawaii. Majority of the supply is manufactured in California and Mexico. Approximately 80-90% of the meth seized in Hawaii is smuggled through the Honolulu Intl Airport via mailed parcels and couriers on commercial flights.
ykkp TIL Netflix uses disguised warehouses and unmarked trucks for security purposes
6EAN7 TIL that Canada has a government-sanctioned cartel to control global maple syrup prices and supply, and has been called "the OPEC of the maple syrup world" by The Economist. A barrel of syrup is worth 10-18 times the value of U.S. crude oil.
pQQQ TIL that the last Shuttle flight STS-134 was delayed after an engineer committed suicide by throwing himself off the launch pad.
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”