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TIL that the Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company in human history with it being worth almost 8 times as much as Apple is today.

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4XGxR TIL about Pan-Pan, an alternative distress signal to Mayday. It is used when the situation is urgent, but does not pose an imminent risk to life. Using Pan-Pan informs potential rescuers that there is a problem, but rescue isn't immediately required.
VBpgQ TIL A chinese father hired virtual assassins to continuously kill his son's WoW character to force him to get a job
vPXJ8 TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. After being destroyed and looted, the ones left are at risk of disappearing due to shifting desert sands. Theres a multi-billion dollar project to plant a line of trees across the entire African continent to create ground stability and stop the desert spread.
KYDN9 TIL Science Fiction author and editor Harlen Ellison on occasion used the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird to alert members of the public to situations in which he felt his creative contribution to a project had been mangled by others
ngDd TIL Disney made a deal with Netflix to stream all of their new releases starting “late 2016,” including subsidiaries such as Pixar and Marvel. This means films like Finding Dory, Avengers: Infinity War, and Star Wars: Episode VIII will be on Netflix in the coming years.