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TIL that PayPerView events can cost bars and restaurants thousands of dollars to show them, and PayPerView sends spies out to make sure non-paying establishments aren’t showing them and sues those that are caught.

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LoKp TIL that in Soviet Russia, laser weapons were developed for cosmonauts to kill astronauts by burning holes through their space suit.
11KO TIL there are photographs of old veterans who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée.
6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."
GBX4 TIL that 7 of the steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous “12 step program” are directly about God.
1nNV TIL: There is 2 islands on a river in Liberia where Chimps that have been used for medical research are sent, instead of being put to death. Basically, it’s the real life version of Planet of the Apes.