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TIL Warner Brothers shut down an entire publisher that they owned and destroyed almost all their stock, just to prevent Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman from publishing a book critical of US foreign policy

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5VJ0D TIL that the Barilla's pasta manufacturing plant in Parma (Italy) is the world's largest pasta production facility. It is 430,000 square foot/40,000 square meters large and produces 320,000 tons of pasta annually
Z8Jao TIL one traveller from China bought a first class ticket which came with access to a VIP lounge that had free food. He enjoyed 300 free meals by reschduling 300 times in a year. When investigated, he canceled the ticket and got a full refund.
JEJl TIL that, since 1950, acceptance of an Academy Award statuette requires that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.
7Z1O TIL lobsters literally engage in pissing contests. Dueling lobsters urinate out of their face during fights and the lobster who pees first almost always wins.
yQk8J TIL that there exists Free Beer, a beer whose recipe you can freely modify since the beer is open source. Currently, the beer is at version 6.0.