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TIL Just six corporations control 90% of the media in The United States.

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4kZga TIL from 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. These laws targeted poor people and disabled people, citing reasons such as deformities, visible signs of disease or mutilations to deny access to public spaces.
wLPwP TIL The Great Gatsby was originally a failure when released in 1925 and only became popular when it was mass printed and sent to soldiers during World War 2. 1944, only 120 copies of Gatsby sold, today it sells over 500,000 each year.
4XrY5 TIL that there is a condition Uterus Didelphys where a person has a double uterus with two separate cervices. In some instances there have been twin births where each uterus carried a separate pregnancy.
9wNPM TIL that the discovery of viruses started from a mysterious disease that affected tobacco crops in the Netherlands at the end of 1800s. A Dutch microbiologist named Beijerinck proved that filtrated sap from plants was still infectious, and called it "contagious, living fluid".
ZkXv TIL EA hired people to protest against their own games