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TIL about Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in the '20s and '30s. It included corporations based in Europe and the United States, like Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries, and Philips.

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80WV TIL that there is a musical piece called ‘As SLow aS Possible’, written to be played literally as slow as possible (while strictly adhering to the score’s temporal proportions). An ongoing performance of the score began in a German church in September 5th 2001 and will end on September 5th, 2640.
kPYE TIL that since Abraham Lincoln’s burial, his coffin had been moved 17 times and opened 6 times. On the last time the coffin was opened (1901) his face was still perfectly recognizable
rRoBw TIL of Sonya Golden Hand, a Russian female con artist who committed several carefully planned robberies and stole tens of thousands of rubles. She was eventually captured and exiled to a penal colony. She was moved into solitary confinement after trying to escape the colony dressed as a guard.
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