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TIL that the EU visa application rejection is a profitable "business": +100M a year, 90% of it comes from African and Asian countries

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Egbr0 TIL SoFi Stadium's 5 billion dollar construction cost was entirely funded by private investors with no tax payer money.
4MZ5 TIL that in his second book written in 1928 , Hitler ranked the U.S. as the MOST dangerous potential enemy. He saw majority of Americans as “Aryans” ruled by Jewish plutocracy; he saw UK as potential ally, Russians “incapable of intelligent thought” and France rapidly “Negroizing” itself
MAmK TIL that the time machine in ‘Back to the Future’ was originally a refridgerator, but was changed since they were concerned kids would lock themselves inside
jN08v TIL Dr. Seuss used his full name, Theodore Geisel, until he was caught drinking alcohol in his college room when the consumption of alcohol was illegal in the U.S. He was forcefully resigned from working on the school magazine, but he still sneaked in his work under his middle name, Seuss.
neVQ7 TIL The first "bleep" censor machine was invented in 1921 after Vaudeville actress Olga Petrova appeared on a Newark radio station making an oblique reference to the need for birth control in violation of the Comstock Laws.