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TIL one of the primary economic principles of Nazi Germany was the mass privatization of public industries.

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M7D0 TIL Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho first gained media attention when he was just 13 after his team won a game 23-0. He scored every single goal in the game.
R75v9 TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien first saw combat in the second week of the Battle of the Somme. One of his closest friends, Robert Gilson, had been killed on the first day.
gayW TIL that NASA named “2012” the most scientifically inaccurate movie ever.
R5Qk6 TIL in the 80s, Nintendo of America had a strict rule that a third-party company could only publish up to five games a year for the NES in the US. Konami of America then got around this rule by forming a shell corporation called Ultra Games in 1988 to extend their annual library to ten games a year.
lBaN TIL The Notorious B.I.G, Jay-Z, DMX, and Busta Rhymes all went to the same high school, at the same time