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TIL that printer manufacturers make most of their money from ink and often make no money for the sale printer itself

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dD6WB TIL that the memorial sign dedicated to Emmett Till, a 14-year-old african-american boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, have had to be replaced four times because people kept shooting them full of bullet holes. In 2019, a bulletproof sign was finally erected.
aWyJ TIL Italy’s Credem Bank takes parmesan cheese from local producers in exchange for cheap loans (charging 3-5% interest, depending on quality) & a fee ensuring the cheese matures properly (2yrs) in the bank vault (cheese is sold if the loan defaults). 430,000 parmesan wheels ($200M+) are stored there
R77Dl TIL in 1992 President G.H.W. Bush got sick during a state event in Japan and vomited into the lap of Japans Prime Minister Miyazawa.
166oW TIL The Jeremy Kyle Show, a popular UK talk show, was cancelled in 2019 after a guest died of a suspected suicide seven days after he failed a lie detector test on the show. He was taking part in the show in an attempt to prove he had not cheated on his fiancee.
dyjj TIL that in the seventeenth century, bands of wanderers called Comprachicos bought children, deformed and mutilated them, and sold them as dwarves, freaks, and court jesters, mainly to royal courts for their amusement.