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TIL sweden nationalized their banks after their subprime recession.

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pJaG TIL Stanley Kubrick was embarrassed to discover that HAL’s initials were one letter up from IBM, which had helped the production of 2001, “and we would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence”
VMJdQ TIL that competitive eater Matthew Kai Stonie attempted to recreate Big Smoke's order from the "Drive-thru" mission in GTA San Andreas, which weighed in at 9050 calories, and ate it in under 35 minutes.
R5bAQ TIL that in 1945, the US Navy converted a former concrete production barge into a floating ice cream factory. It was towed around the Pacific to provide ice cream to Allied troops, and could produce 10 gallons of ice cream every 7 minutes.
7dbM TIL coal companies fund a group to file frivolous lawsuits against climate scientists
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