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TIL at Hanna Barbera's height during the 1970s, they controlled almost 80% of children's programming and 2/3rds of the Saturday morning block

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JY611 TIL Al Green’s song “Take Me To The River” earned more royalties from the Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic toy than any other recording of it.
o0DR TIL that billionaire Richard Branson suffered from dyslexia and was a poor academic student who only went to school until he was 16. On his last day there his headmaster told him he Would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.
6axW TIL the knobcone pine, (Pinus attenuata), requires fire to complete its reproduction cycle. Cones remain closed for many years until a fire opens them and allows reseeding. As a result, knobcone cones may even become embedded in the growing wood as the tree matures.
ZxQa TIL that upon its release, twister was referred to as “sex in a box” by critics.
rR70W TIL: At least 167 species of bats are hunted around the world, including in US territories Samoa and Guam