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TIL L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology said, “You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”

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kJvN1 TIL - The Onion Futures Act is a US law banning futures contracts on onions. In 1955 two traders bought so many onions and futures they controlled 98% of the onions in Chicago. They forced growers to purchase their stock by threatening to flood the market.
4kpQR TIL George Lucas sold Lucasfilm (Star Wars) for $4 billion to Disney in 2012, but has since earned over $10 billion from the sale.
0dmrR TIL The Windows 10 background with the blue lasers are real lasers through real windows. Not computer generated!
v15n8 TIL surgeons at a Dental College in India removed a "well-defined bag-like mass" from the jaw of a 7-year-old boy. It weighed 7 ounces and contained 526 teeth. It took a medical team five hours to meticulously search through and count all of them.
mxkGP TIL that when the Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender in WW2, his speech was too formal and vague for the general populace to understand. Many listeners were left confused and it took some people hours, some days, to understand that Japan had, in fact, surrendered.