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TIL Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn, Playboy’s online operations as well as adult film production companies Brazzers, Digital Playground, Men.com, WhyNotBi.com, Reality Kings, and Sean Cody, and more are owned by just one company.

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X04d6 TIL The film ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ about a guy who got rich through financial fraud and crime was funded with money earned through financial fraud and crime.
6aMm TIL that Roger Waters believes the song “The Phantom of the Opera” is plagiarized from Pink Floyd’s “Echoes,” but that “life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.”
5Ym1n TIL That the Czech language was saved from extinction by puppet shows. In the 17th century, the Catholic Ferdinand II forced the Protestant Czech people to speak in German and banned the Czech language. Puppets were the only remaining entities that had the right to speak Czech in public places.
m18OR TIL that there are chickens called "Easter Eggers" that can lay blue, green, cream, olive, or pink eggs. (One egg color per chicken, but different Easter Egger chickens can lay different colored eggs.)
rRmDM TIL Alberta is the only place in the world where you are legally allowed to throw coins at strippers