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TIL Four months after approving the merger of Comcast and NBC in 2011, Meredith Attwell Baker, the FCC commissioner who approved the deal, was hired as a lobbyist by Comcast.

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4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
xBeb TIL Spotify pays artists between 150-200% more than regular US radio stations.
b9Qm7 TIL that Jet Tila made the world's largest stir fry.
b96B0 TIL there's a lesser known third Opium War fought in 1967 on Laos
XEndE TIL that in 2019, a flight bound for Malaysia was abruptly forced to turn around after a mother on board forgot her baby at the airport.