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TIL that a Canadian company named MindGeek owns half of the porn industry, internet video sites and movie studios, with most of the actors are under contract with them. They own so much they compete with themselves for content.

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8eB18 TIL that Riga built a community for blind people
gra79 TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the bill creating the Secret Service on April 14, 1865, the day he was assassinated.
Vem0 TIL On April 15, 1940, Stravinsky’s unconventional major seventh chord in his arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner led to his arrest by the Boston police for violating a federal law that prohibited the reharmonization of the National Anthem.
grwj4 TIL that Children From Low-Income Households With Rich Friends Are Likely to Earn More in Adulthood
OGga TIL there’s a japanese company named Cyberdyne that invented a strength augmenting robotic exoskeleton. They named it HAL.