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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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xPKb TIL Walt Disney has won more Oscars than anyone else, 22 in total
WvrA TIL when TGI Friday’s announced their $10 Endless Appetizers deal, a woman sat in a Friday’s for 14 hours eating plate after plate of mozzarella sticks to see if they were truly “endless”. They were.
60gJ TIL Elon Musk was an executive producer on “Thank You for Smoking”
G6y1 TIL that a 23 year old French con artist impersonated and assumed the identity of a 16 year old missing Texas boy, living with the boy’s family for months, despite retaining his French accent and having different colored eyes from the missing teen.
oJGY TIL that the Liberty bell and Big Ben were cast by the same bell foundry, and that both bells are cracked.