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TIL in 2010 the 6 corporations who control 90% of the media (often called the “Big 6”) made a total profit that exceeded the GDP of Finland by 36 billion dollars ($36,000,000,000).

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mxx5o TIL Monty Python's, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is played over the PA system at the end of every Iron Maiden concert.
7rZWX TIL that Lithuania was the last pagan nation in Europe, before their official adoption of Roman Catholic in 1387
Y7gl7 TIL Philip Ahn was a Korean American actor who played villainous Japanese characters "to the hilt" during the Second World War. Ahn had fun with the parts, when asked to speak Japanese would actually speak Korean and make remarks described as “highly uncomplimentary to the Japanese.”
ANkQB TIL A $250,000 diamond placed on the nose of an F1 car was lost in a crash in the 2004 Monaco GP. It's still missing today.
eywn TIL that the shape of Pringles potato chips (a hyperbolic paraboloid) was designed using a supercomputer to be aerodynamically stable so they don’t fly off the manufacturing line.