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TIL that soap operas have their distinct look due to their significant restrained budgets, leading to cost-saving lighting methodologies and video storage formats (including VHS tapes)

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M71Q7 TIL that the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology conducted an "autopsy" of the failed Friendster social network to determine the causes of its collapse
7wwp TIL the biggest financial fraud in human history, involving trillions of dollars, was discovered 2 years ago, and the average person never even heard about it.
6EWL7 TIL Ken McElroy terrorized the town of Skidmore, MO for more than 10 yrs. In 1981 he was shot dead in the presence of over 30 witnesses, but the shooters were never named, and no charges were ever pressed.
NNOe TIL that a Pineapple is actually a bunch of small berries fused together into a single mass
GAPBg TIL that in the 1970s Theo Albrecht (one of the founders of Aldi) was kidnapped, haggled the ransom down to 7 million marks and (unsucessfully) tried to claim the ransom as a tax deductible business expense