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TIL United States is the world's largest consumer market, accounting for 30% of global consumer spending despite representing only 4.2% of the global population.

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Va7k TIL of Max Yasgur, the man who hosted Woodstock on his dairy farm. He got threats from his neighbors, but said “if the generation gap is to be closed, we older people have to do more than we have done.” He also got angry when people were trying to sell water and provided it free of charge.
b97E0 TIL that Hard Rock Cafe is entirely owned by the native american Seminole Tribe of Florida
GYvK5 TIL that the movie "Titanic" cost more to make than the actual ship
MgNb TIL that Samsung contested Apple’s IPad patent by pointing out that the iPad first appeared in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
N76jN TIL Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed assault in the Civil War, leading a raid into South Carolina that rescued 750 enslaved people.