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TIL just about every product we buy and use has been gobbled up by one of about 10 megacorporations

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7rGQZ TIL of a disease known as 'popcorn lung.' A respiratory illness due to exposure to a chemical that flavors microwave popcorn. Before most companies removed this chemical, a man who ate two bags a day and inhaled the steam, sued a food company and was awarded $7 mil.
1aNlO TIL that Nellie Bly, the author of the famous exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House, wrote 11 novels that were thought to be lost to time until they were rediscovered and published earlier this year.
xVpr0 TIL paparazzi in China are called the "puppy squad" ( 狗仔隊)
R7EY8 TIL that footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.
ljMG TIL that there have been 8 Christian Prime Ministers in Japan even though the Christians make less than 1% of Japan’s population