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TIL NSYNC's song "Bye Bye Bye" was actually about getting out of a predatory record deal and leaving their con-artist band manager, Lou Pearlman

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9Y5Mm TIL: Among the oldest companies in the world still in operation are - St. Peter Stifts Kulinarium, Austria (Restaurant, opened in 803), Monnaie de Paris, France (Mint, opened in 864), and Sean's Bar, Ireland (Pub, which claim to have been opened in 900)
aBdZ TIL A small home in Cheyenne, Wyoming is home to 2,000+ shell companies.
wL04P TIL that figs are carnivorous
YDBW TIL the 5th Amendment protects someone from revealing the source of their illegal income, but not the amount.
xVNPD TIL: In 1982, Daniel Shechtman discovered a new type of crystal called a quasicrystal. The scientific community mocked him. A colleague told him to read a textbook on crystallography and he was later fired for continuing his research. In 2011, Shechtman won the Nobel prize for this discovery.