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TIL 50% of Disney’s entire revenue comes solely from owning ESPN.

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0PYv TIL The Big Lebowski contains more F bombs than The Departed, The Boondock Saints, and Scarface
awQAZ TIL that around the world, there are more than 100 primitive ‘uncontacted’ tribes that live in complete isolation from the modern world. Contact with some of these tribes has been attempted, but is now limited because of a fear of violence and spreading diseases.
4QrN TIL that a murderer named William Chester Minor made enormous contributions to the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary while he was in a mental asylum.
98mG TIL it would take ~14.5 Quadrillion Lego pieces to make a minifigure sized earth.
E1MM7 TIL that Pangaea wasn't the "first" continent where everything formed in one place, and that many super continents existed before it due to cyclical plate tectonic activity