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TIL That Red Granite Pictures the production company behind “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Daddy’s Home” reached a 60 million dollar settlement with the US government over a 4.5 billion Malaysian government corruption case

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mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
9wA6Q TIL that physicist Lawrence Langer took a nap on the Little Boy nuclear bomb. It was the only "place where there was room to lie down" while he was keeping the curious away from the bomb the night before the Enola Gay's bombing run.
9Xdp TIL Pioneer 10, a space craft meant to study Jupiter which was launched 2 March 1972, was only meant to send signal to Earth for 3 years, but it continued to send signal for over 30 years while heading towards the center of our galaxy.
b6eK0 TIL: The Union Army didn't recruit black soldiers until after the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet, the mortality rate amog the United States Colored Troops (USCT) was 35% greater than among other troops even though they it formed 18 months after the Civil War began.
kOwwm TIL when Apple finds underage workers in its suppliers’ factories they make the suppliers return the children to their homes, pay for their education and continue to provide income for basic needs until they reach the legal working age. After this, suppliers must offer them reemployment.