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TIL Anti-piracy advert “You wouldn’t download a car” committed copyright theft of the music.

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v17dr TIL Buddha noticed that the food offered by a blacksmith named Cunda was spoiled, but he didn't want to make Cunda feel bad and so he ate it. The Buddha then fell sick and died.
rQXd TIL Industrially-Grown Tomatoes are grown not for flavor but for their resilience to being hauled across the country. They are picked very unripe and green. Trucks transporting them are pumped full of Ethylene gas to artificially ripen them.
abXN TIL that from its discovery in 1947 until 2007, there were only 14 confirmed human cases of Zika infection worldwide. In the past two years there have been an estimated 1.5 million infections in Brazil alone.
4pl6 TIL that there is a competition in Japan that challenges sumo wrestlers to be the fastest to make babies cry
Bv6K TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead