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TIL $5.60 of each plane ticket funds the TSA

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R77O9 TIL in the Soviet Union between 1946-1964 there was a thriving black market for bootleg recordings made from discarded x-rays.
8VBP TIL Bob Ross didn’t make a cent from his TV series the Joy of Painting. His income came from selling his paint products.
Z8GZG TIL I learned that, adjusted for inflation, the entire US Apollo Lunar program only cost $288 billion over its lifetime
W7XZN TIL when a library buys an ebook, they actually are only able to buy a licence to loan out that book for about 1-2 years, or until the book is loaned a few dozen times. They also are forced to pay several times what a normal consumer pays for an ebook
erVE TIL up to 80% of olive oil sold in America is fake oil manufactured by the Italian Mafia