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TIL Record Companies sued Limewire creators for 72 Trillion Dollars in damages. That was more than global GDP in 2011.

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wWgM TIL Bond author Ian Fleming believed a popular theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. He believed this to such an extent that he promoted the theory in one of the Bond novels.
5YAR8 TIL the first case of artificial insemination by donor occurred in 1884 when a doctor took sperm from his "best looking" student to inseminate an anesthetized woman. The woman's infertile husband approved of the procedure, but the woman wasn't told what was happening.
dDXNB TIL Wendy's in Japan is colloquially referred to as "Fakkin". The company disapproves of its use because of its similarity to the pronunciation of the English word "f*cking".
wL0D1 TIL about the Draggonades, a French policy put in place by King Louis XIV where misbehaving French soldiers were quartered in Protestant households to force conversion to Catholicism.
PYaAe TIL that the Hershey's Kisses Holiday Commercial has aired every season since 1989