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TIL there’s a time-honored tradition of allowing brewery employees all the free beer they wish while working: It’s called Der Sternewirth

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R7J0j TIL that many movie studios have avoided paying taxes/royalties that rely on a movie’s net profits, by using creative methods to reduce or eliminate the reported profits, also called “Hollywood Accounting”.
vP1Z8 TIL that there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).
gM6JA TIL that Billy West, who does the voice of Philip J. Fry's on Futurama among other characters, intentionally made Fry's voice close to his natural voice as a job security measure because it would be more difficult to replace him.
0wARM TIL John Cena can speak basic Mandarin. WWE taught wrestlers basic phrases in an effort to expand into China, but Cena was fascinated by the language and learned as much as he could, even having a tutor and flash cards.
9o4B TIL that, by using astronomy, we have guessed the date that Odysseus took back the throne of Ithaca as described in Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’: April 16th, 1178 B.C.