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TIL Sony makes more than half its revenue on life insurance and banking services in Japan

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lo9ZK TIL Tongs are so engraved in society that it is believed by the jewish people that god created them on the seventh day right before resting. This is because blacksmiths need a pair of tongs to create tongs.
x61Ak TIL that Caren Marsh Doll was Judy Garland's stand-in for The Wizard of Oz, and also had a bit part in Gone With the Wind. She was in a plane crash in 1949 which resulted in an amputated foot. She is still alive at 102, one of the oldest survivors of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
NXe51 TIL about the existence of Cold-water geysers. Instead of using geothermal heat to create pressure they work by pressure from CO2 saturated water
VMVP0 TIL: Match, Tinder, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, Hinge and several other dating apps are all owned by the same parent company.
XExdE TIL about the "Angry Angel of Chinatown", Donaldina Cameron who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution and indentured servitude from 1895 to 1934.