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TIL Seven Eleven was bought out by Seven Eleven Japan and has been fully Japanese owned since 2005

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1aGkP TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
0ddeA TIL during the Pascal-B subterranean nuclear test in 1957, a 2000lbs steel plate cap was thrown into the atmosphere at 150,000 miles per hour
xE4k TIL that the guy who discovered the link between handwashing and germs, was criticised to the point that it destroyed his health, and later, him
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loB4N TIL that Mithridates VI was so paranoid of being poisoned that he slowly drank small amounts of it throughout his life in order to gain an immunity. When he was captured by the Romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but could not