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TIL that sales of the Guy Fawkes mask — used by protesters all over the world as a symbol of their fight against government corruption and corporate power — all go to Time Warner.

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jMJj TIL the honey badger eats porcupines and poisonous snakes, raids beehives for honey, kidnaps baby cheetahs, and steals food from hungry lions. (pdf)
QNn9e TIL that the Richmond Bridge in London was financed through a tontine, with the toll charged to cross the bridge shared between the investors, each receiving a larger share as the others died, and the bridge became free to cross after the final survivor's death.
rRVBW TIL Between 1980 and 2001 only 3 players (Mario Lemiuex, Wayne Gretzky and Jaromir Jagr) won the Art Ross Trophy which is the award given to the player who scores the most points in the regular NHL season.
WRvo TIL that a single type of bacteria may have once wiped out over 90% of earth’s lifeforms.
xpjo TIL that the world’s most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory is named the VLT, for Very Large Telescope