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TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos

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VMMjp TIL Apple bought $270 billion dollars worth of "intangible assets" from Ireland --- more than the entire value of all the residential property in Ireland.
6Eprw TIL: The Courthouse Square from “Back to the Future” also appeared in many other iconic films including: “Inherit the Wind,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Music Man.” It also shows up in “Bruce Almighty.”
evM4 TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code
X0J0E TIL in 2016, Nabisco released Swedish Fish Oreo cookies which contained "Swedish Fish flavor creme" and the consensus on social media concerning them was overwhelmingly negative.