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TIL when Dr. Joyce Brothers was a contestant on The $64,000 Question the show’s sponsor Revlon tried to get rid of her because she didn’t wear makeup on air. She was asked increasingly obscure questions but was able to answer them all correctly and became the show’s first woman to win the top prize.

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GAnm4 TIL After seeing its pork production decimated by flu outbreaks, farms across China have been investing billions of dollars into massive high-rise hog-raising facilities popularly known as pig hotels, with one hotel in the Southern China being 13 stories tall and meant to hold around 10,000 pigs.
5Evr TIL Freedom of Speech clause of the US Constitution specifically refers only to the government restricting your freedom of speech, not other people.
d8gME TIL that an area in North Africa of 45 km × 45 km could supply Germany with all of its electrical power through solar energy, an area of 110 km × 110 km could power the European Union, and an area of 254 km × 254 km could power the globe.
ANY6B TIL that after the highly influential singing group "The Ink Spots" broke up in the 1950s, so many former members and even non-members used "The Ink Spots" group name that in 1967, a Federal Judge ruled that it had become Public Domain and was free for anyone to use. Over 100 groups have done so.
x6m9B TIL a Croatian woman died of unknown natural causes alone in her apartment; her body remained undisturbed for 42 years until it was discovered sitting in front of her TV in 2008. It's thought that the isolated position of the place allowed the decomposition to go unnoticed until mummification set in