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TIL that 20 of the top 100 US companies, by revenue, are just monetizing our health.

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GL4G TIL Kellogg’s Corn flakes were part of a plan to reduce masturbation and sexual energy, and invented by a sanitarium director
AD9ka TIL that after writing Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin applied to study under Maurice Ravel and was rejected. Ravel replied, "Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?"
GAL1 TIL Sir Patrick Stewart is an “obsessed” Beavis and Butthead fan, stating that it “will be singled out as a very, very important cultural phenomenon”
WkVBB TIL on Jose Fernandez's 4th attempt to defect from Cuba to the U.S., a person fell overboard. Jose jumped into the waters and saved the person. He recalled, "I don't remember much, just diving in the water and swimming towards this woman. As I was getting close, I could see it was my mother".
VQOG TIL that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge being depicted as an apple may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted mālum (evil).