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TIL every company on the show “Shark Tank” used to have to give 2% royalties or 5% equity to the producers, regardless of whether a deal was made. Mark Cuban forced the producers to end that requirement, saying the “quality of the companies and entrepreneurs would decline” if it were kept

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d8bWZ TIL that Red Cloud, a Chief of the Lakota, was the only American Indian in the West to win a war against the US, inflicted the largest military defeat suffered by the US on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and was the most photographed American Indian in the 19th century.
9wkX7 TIL Asian and African elephants can successfully hybridise despite being in different genera. The only recorded hybrid, named Motty, died after 2 weeks however.
4kX7w TIL after the TV show Teletubbies ended, the owner of the land used had to dig out the hill and flood the field it was filmed in, due to the amount of people trespassing to see Teletubbieland.
5VNAp TIL in 1977, Stu Ungar was bet $100,000 by Bob Stupak (a casino owner) that he could not count down half of a six-deck shoe and then successfully determine what the last 156 cards are. Ungar won the bet.
J9VQ TIL That Kate Mara has a clause in her film contracts that allows her to attend the Super Bowl if either the Steelers or the Giants make it on account of her mother’s family owning the Steelers and her father’s owning the Giants.