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TIL In 1984 Marvel obtained the trademarks to "Hulk Hogan", "Hulkster", and "Hulkamania" for 20 years that required Hulk Hogan to pay royalties on merchandises and any matches he appeared in.

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VNw4 TIL that Masao Yoshida, the plant manager at Fukushima in 2011, disobeyed orders to stop pumping seawater into the nuclear reactor. This stopped a greater disaster that would have affected millions of lives.
XYGE TIL The CEO of Nestle said that Drinking Water is not a human right, and that there should be a market value for it
WkEB8 TIL that in the 17th century, choir boys as young as eight years old would be castrated in order to preserve their pre-pubescent "angel voices"
AD9MB TIL: Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem
GYwrG TIL that Rian Johnson directed both the much maligned 'The Last Jedi' and the Breaking Bad episode 'Ozymandias' which is widely considered one one the best episodes in the best series in the history of television.