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TIL that the CEO of Netflix once said that Blockbuster was throwing everything at them, but the kitchen sink. The next day he received a kitchen sink from the CEO of Blockbuster.

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KOxYG TIL in 1965, Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL in the Austrian Army (during the 1 year service required by the government) to attend a bodybuilding contest. He spent a week in military prison, but won the contest, propelling the opportunity for larger contests and, ultimately, his ticket to to America
lWM1 TIL that the US Department of Education made around 51 Billion dollar profit off of government student loans, equivient to the profit of PMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo combined.
Wb59 TIL There’s a hedgehog cuddling cafe in Tokyo
5Vwy8 TIL Tom Cochrane, a Canadian rock artist, released a solo of his song “big leagues” in honour of the Humboldt broncos bus crash that killed 16 people from the team. The original song from 1988 and told the story of a parent whose son earned a scholarship with a US team before dying in a car crash.
4XWgb TIL that in 2017 it was revealed that UN peacekeepers operated a child sex ring in Haiti for over 10 years and no one went to jail