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TIL Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci once played in the same band.

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PMWO TIL that in the 1970s, General Mills sued an economics professor for making a parody game called “Anti-Monopoly,” but the suit was thrown out because it was discovered that Monopoly was a ripoff of a board game first developed in 1903 called “The Landlord’s Game.”
rRVMe TIL In 2015 Carlos Slim’s companies accounted for approximately 40% of the listings on Mexico’s stock exchange and his net worth was equivalent to about 6% of Mexico's gross domestic product.
b6oL0 TIL The Salvation Army was originally opposed by and fought with The Skeleton Army which was composed of lower and working class citizens, punks and miscreants who objected to the SA's views on abstinence and temperence.
Ykdv TIL 8.8 billion in Cash , Shipped into the Middle of War Torn Iraq “went missing” is Unaccounted for and is Unlikely to be Recovered.
loe0r TIL in 2005, a glitch called the Corrupted Blood Incident in World of Warcraft caused a pandemic that killed populations of players, which attracted the attention of scientists for its implications of how human populations could react to a real-world epidemic.