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TIL Ryan Reynolds used Mint Mobile (a budget cellphone service company) and then bought an ownership stake in the company.

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KOpo9 TIL The Battle of The Eclipse aka The Battle of Halys that took place in 585 BC which was halted due to a solar eclipse during the on-going fight. Both sides took this as a bad omen from their gods and sought to negotiate resulting in the ending of a 6 year long war between the two empires.
VpYk TIL there is an underground group in Paris who spent months infiltrating the Pantheon in 2006 to repair a clock
woXOW TIL convicted NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere has had many girlfriends who died untimely and suspicious deaths. One girlfriend, who simply disappeared, was last seen alive at a NXIVM meeting.
a790 TIL in the past 100 years, 80% of the biomass of fish in the world’s oceans has been lost.
Wk8ZA TIL about the Most Unwanted Song, a musical piece that was created using a survey to identify what people hated most in music. The final result included out of tune accordions and bagpipes, a rapping cowboy opera singer, and a children's choir that urged listeners to shop at Walmart.