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TIL in 2023 Disney made more profit from churros sales at its theme parks than it did for Disney+ streaming.

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Bvjy TIL homicide rates & battle deaths are way down since prehistoric times – and we now live in “The most peaceful time in our species’ existence”
M7rQ0 TIL The Turbo Encabulator is a fictional electromechanical machine with a satirical technobabble description that became a famous in-joke among engineers after it was published by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers. Technical documentation has been written for the non-existent machine.
6pr8 TIL that payed, a common misspelling of paid, is an actual word that means an act of sealing the deck or seams of wooden ships with pitch to prevent water leakage. This makes it an atomic typo(link in comments)
rNRJw TIL Rhodesia used biologocal weapons against insurgents in the 1970s, experimenting on humans and using anthrax, cholera and ricin among others to poison food and clothes
WGPo TIL Rolls Royce didn’t start selling cars with body work until 1946. Up until then, they only sold the chassis and motor with a recommendation to use Barker & Co Ltd to build a customized body and coach. One of which designs is the world’s most expensive car at $57,000,000.