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TIL that the Winnie-the-Pooh media franchise has generated more revenue ($76bil) than Marvel Cinematic Universe ($35bil) and Harry Potter ($32bil) combined.

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d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
8dYV TIL Jackie Wilson always kissed the “ugliest” girl in the audience because “they’ll all think they can have me and keep coming back and buying my records.”
0wxYR TIL in 1973, two babies [one from an identical twins & one from single birth] were accidentally switched at birth in Gran Canaria, Spain. The mistake was discovered 28 years later. A friend of one of the twins was working in a shopping center in Las Palmas, the other identical twin came in to buy.
yd0e TIL that in 1979 there was an anthrax leak at a Soviet military facility that killed most of the workers in a factory downwind. The USSR denied having an active biological weapons program, but in 1992 a team of inspectors discovered how the accident had occurred.