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TIL SoFi Stadium's 5 billion dollar construction cost was entirely funded by private investors with no tax payer money.

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wLZdY TIL Facebook applied for a patent for a technology built to spy on users' reactions of content through their webcams/smartphone cameras and microphones without their knowledge
D1wxP TIL more than 5,000 babies across the United States were abducted by a supposedly charitable organization between 1924 and 1950. The group targeted poor Southern families and developed a black market for white babies.
8aXMK TIL An Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming To Match its Dreams
YpKGx TIL Shakespeare's most published work in his lifetime was not any of his plays, but his poem Venus and Adonis, with ten editions of the poem published before he died. As much as 40% of Shakespeare's works published in his lifetime consisted of his poems alone.
WW68 TIL “Walking Corpse Syndrome” is a mental condition in which sufferers believe they are missing internal organs, have no blood, or that they are dead outright. PET scans of a patient showed he exhibited brain activity similar to someone asleep or under anaesthesia