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TIL that Project Stargate was a CIA plan to use psychic powers for spying

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v06L TIL, pharmaceutical companies pay their competitors to not make generic forms of their drugs so they can continue to charge more to consumers.
8XP TIL that over a period of 200 years, 3 ships perished at the same location of the coast of Wales, on the same day (December 5th) and all 3 had only one survivor. The 3 survivors all had the same name: Hugh Williams
1aGlW TIL that the iconic THX sound that plays before trailers isn't actually very loud, it just feels loud because it contains a spectrum of frequencies that go from low to high.
dNN7 TIL Nintendo of Japan was afraid that Americans would rest soda cans on top of their Super Nintendos, it was redesigned when released in America to avoid this.
8eXE4 TIL of the Great Bison Belt. Sprawling grassland from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico dated around 9,000BC, may have housed between 30-40 million bison. First seen by English colonists on the Potomac River.