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MevMK TIL Scarlett Johansson is currently the world's highest-paid actress since 2018. She also has no active social media accounts as she stated "she does not see the need to continuously share details of her everyday life" during an interview with Interview magazine in 2011.
Ge7j TIL that the Golden State Fence Company, hired to build part of the US-Mexico border wall, was fined US$5M for hiring illegal immigrant workers.
17Nr TIL some of Coca-Cola’s flavouring still comes from the same plant as cocaine and that Coca-Cola is the only company with government permission to import it into the US
yKmv TIL that Tesla invented a light bulb called the “Carbon button lamp” that is 10 times more efficient than a standard Edison incandescent bulb.
wLZaY TIL about the last place on earth where orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers still live together in the wild - the Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia. It spans 6 million acres (about 3 times the size of Yellowstone). And it’s heavily endangered from deforestation & human activities/encroachment