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TIL that in 1925, the major light bulb manufacturers of the world formed the Phoebus Cartel with the intent to lower bulb hours and raise prices

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9w8kD TIL a large number of the people we see fired in the film 'Up in the Air' (2009) are not actors, but real people who were recently laid off. They were instructed to respond as they did when they were laid off, or use the opportunity to say what they wished they had.
oLEL TIL when the first horse was cloned, she was implanted with the clone embryo and later gave birth to a carbon-copy of herself.
xJ47 TIL: A judge sentenced convicted murderer William Hammons to life in prison without the possibility of parole, with one additional term: he must spend every anniversary of his victim’s death in solitary confinement.
GALr7 TIL on the island of Papua New Guinea, there are a number of species of green lizards that have green bones, green hearts, green tongues, and green blood.
JY8AB TIL Ziggy Marley, one of Bob Marley's 11 children, sung the theme song for the long-running PBS cartoon Arthur.