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TIL Pearson, the education publisher, reported a loss of £2.6 billion in 2016

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yV8MM TIL about Blue Peacock, a nuclear land mine with a proposed heating system to prevent malfunctions during cold snaps in winter involving body heat from live chickens and enough supplies for them to stay alive for a week.
oMXE TIL Portlandia and SNL star Fred Armisten used to be a member of the Blue Man Group
d80JE TIL There is a Japanese Historical Revisionist Movement that pushes false narrative that Japan was trying to liberate Asia from Western Powers in WWII omitting atrocities committed by Japan.
8j68 TIL of Carlos DeLuna, who was wrongly convicted of murder and executed for killing a gas station attendant. The police made no effort to investigate another man named Carlos who looked nearly identical to DeLuna. Evidence of his innocence would have taken less than a day of investigation to uncover
pYyee TIL Edwin Drake, the first american to successfully drill for oil, was hired by the oil company because he happened to be staying at the same hotel as the oil company's owners.