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TIL that because lotteries are illegal in Canada, companies tie the award to a game of skill, which is typically asking an elementary math question

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aWMy TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.
4XRNN TIL Universal Studios, United Artists, and Disney rejected to get involved with "Star Wars" due to budget concerns or believing it wouldn't succeed due to being too strange. Only 20th Century Fox agreed because they wanted to form relations with George Lucas after his success of "American Graffiti".
Jl6k TIL The Radium Girls were factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women were told the paint was harmless, and ingested deadly amounts by licking their paintbrushes; some painted their fingernails and teeth with the glowing paint.
xXNB TIL Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap was created by Emanuel H. Bronner, the son of German soapmakers who died in the Holocaust. Refusing to emigrate with him, their last communication was a censored postcard: “You were right. —Your loving father.”
ELeo TIL - Friedrich Nietzsche held a pessimistic view on modern society and popular culture. He believed the press and mass culture led to conformity and brought about mediocrity resulting in a lack of intellectual progress, leading to the decline of the human species..