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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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9w8RQ TIL Bruce Springsteen originally wrote the song "Hungry Heart" for the Ramones at the request of Joey Ramone, but ended up keeping and recording the song himself on the advice of his producer and manager, Jon Landau. It became Springsteen's first big hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #5.
YknP TIL when an italian traveller visited Sparta, he tasted one of their staple foods, black broth. After eating it he responded, “Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death”.
4Xkyg TIL that engineers can't explain why the Leaning Tower of Pisa didn't topple in 1990 when it had a tilt of 5.5 degrees. Computer models suggest it should of toppled at 5.44 degrees.
8ePJP Today I learned that the world's largest living organism is a fungus named Armillaria ostoyae, which covers over 2,200 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest. It's estimated to be around 2,400 years old and weighs over 600 tons.
m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.