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TIL that Disney owns part of a Canadian Porn streaming service through ESPN

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aAXo TIL in 1486, Spanish mathematician Paolo Valmes was allegedly burned at the stake for claiming to have solved the quartic equation because it was a against the will of God “such a solution (is) inaccessible to human understanding”
Eg48p TIL of the hard problem of consciousness. The difficulty for the scientific community to put the experience of senses (qualia), and the existence of consciousness, into a valid scientific physical system.
9ARB TIL Sharon Osbourne sold all of Ozzy Osbournes cars when she found out he was drinking and driving
a86w9 TIL Chicken Katsu was invented in the late 1800s by a Tokyo restaurant that wanted to offer a European-style meat cutlet to British businessmen
m7mR TIL disinfectant doesn’t kill 99.9 of the amount of germs, 99.9 percent refers to the variety of germs.