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TIL The second largest shareholder in News Corp is a Saudi Oil Billionaire..

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rDDo TIL 25% of all bottled water in the US comes from the city’s tap including Aquafina (Pepsi) & Dasani (Coke)
WepX TIL Tommy Chong ended up being Jordan Belfort’s cellmate and encouraged him to write down his life into The Wolf of Wall Street,
mDeP TIL that Vegas is running out of water and electricity. After a 14-year drought, experts say that the water level in the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam which provides Vegas with water and power is now well below half full.
66vw TIL Felix Landau, of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen (death squads), once shot and killed the Jewish personal dentist of a fellow officer. That officer, as an act of revenge, killed Landau’s ‘favorite jew’, the artist Bruno Schulz. He later told Landau “You killed my jew - I killed yours.”
epVEJ TIL intercontinental ballistic missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while flying outside the Earth's atmosphere.