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TIL Sony once sued itself; RIAA(partially controlled by Sony Music) sued Launch.com(owned by Sony’s Tech & Business unit), meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued it’s Tech Dept.

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VBEkm TIL that before 1950 Chickens were largely grown by Farming Wives as a sideline, and Americans ate no more than 6 birds per year per person. Post 1950, chicken farming became industrialized. Now the average American household eats Chicken 3-4 times a week for a total of 30 birds per year per person.
MAlb TIL that at its peak, the British Empire became the largest empire to have ever existed.
6QNY TIL a man blew his head off in the middle of the Harvard campus, as an “as an experiment in nihilism”, as described in his 1900-pg manifesto.
VBoDG TIL how 3D geometry and prespective on Computer and CGI works by perspective and planes. which is similar to the optical illusion drawn in papers or walls. Geometry with brain and eye tricks
LkOPp TIL a Cuneiform clay tablet made in 703 BC, copied from an astronomers notebook from 3100 BCE, is evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah were actually destroyed by a 1 km wide asteroid that then went on to hit Austria.