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TIL Ontario Teachers Pension Plan owns 1/3 of a company that controls 2600 units of Taco Bell, Panera, Applebee's, Arby's, and Wendy's

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d8gwd TIL that Thucydides, one of Ancient Greece’s greatest historians, was killed mid-sentence.
mxdeP TIL a 'master-mind' cyber-criminal, who was on the FBI's most wanted list, was arrested when detectives were able to figure out his laptop password. It was the name of his cat, followed by 123
ANxad TIL the average dairy cow in 2020 was roughly five times as productive as the average one in 1950.
lGkr Today I learned Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, that were distributed through the Kindle store in 2009. This chilling example of potentially malicious behavior would have never been possible without DRM.
4MZ5 TIL that in his second book written in 1928 , Hitler ranked the U.S. as the MOST dangerous potential enemy. He saw majority of Americans as “Aryans” ruled by Jewish plutocracy; he saw UK as potential ally, Russians “incapable of intelligent thought” and France rapidly “Negroizing” itself