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

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Q9b6 TIL the margin of error in the Indian population census is twice the global Jewish population
0PLy TIL influential newspaper editor William Thomas Stead wrote a story in 1892 about a ship sinking in the Atlantic at great loss of life due to not enough lifeboats. Stead died in the Titanic sinking in 1912.
xV7m7 TIL that if a movie character carries an iPhone, you can be sure they aren't bad/evil. Apple does not allow 'bad guy' characters to own or carry iPhones on camera
v1QMr Today I learned that Al Yankovich is actually 1/4 Slovene 1/4 Croat not 1/2 serb!
RmJj TIL that in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, at least 300 people lost their lives because the doors opened inwards. This prompted the regulation that all doors in a public building must open outwards.