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TIL Loblaws and George Weston Limited agreed to pay $500 million to settle the bread price-fixing lawsuit in Canada.

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jrbv TIL there is a theory that suggests the years AD 614–911 did not occur and that in fact the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto III, directed chroniclers to fabricate historical records and figures, such as Charlemagne, for these years. If thought to be true, it would currently be AD 1716, not 2013.
R78k1 Today I learned that the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.
4kDyR TIL 50 Cent & G-Unit were bottled like crazy and booed off stage @ the 2004 UK Reading Festival
L0Wd TIL the two men who penned the song ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never previously been to a baseball game.
MEO8 TIL some military vehicles are equipped with an multi-microphone system called a “boomerang” that can locate the direction of enemy gunfire as well as the shooter’s range and azimuth (elevation) after the first shot.