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TIL that Nike controls over 90% of the basketball shoe market

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LBB9 TIL that Ben Franklin published a list of 200 synonyms for “drunk”, which includes “Nimptopsical”, “Cherubimical”, and “Been too free with Sir John Strawberry.”
D1OYe TIL that in France, students are taught that there are 5 continents. This blew my mind because in the USA, I learned that there are 7 continents and thought it was a universal fact.
vLPB TIL that a father was denied access to see his premature twins in the NICU when Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter at the same time
d8dg7 TIL That Spotify pays the Artist/Label between $0.003 and $0.0084 per stream, with an average payout of $0.004 per stream.
GAKB4 TIL that the ‘Moneyball’ movie cost more to make than the 2002 Oakland A’s payroll (the team the movie is based after).