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TIL Todd Field, director and writer of Tár, helped create the first batch of Big League Chew bubble gum

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0EXR TIL the CEO of Lifelock, had his identity stolen 13 times after posting his real Social Security No. The company was sued by Experian for placing false fraud alerts on clients, thus keeping LifeLock clients’ files in a constant state of alert. They also were fined $12 million for false advertising.
8e0nV TIL about proton beam therapy, a type of radiotherapy that uses a beam of high energy protons, to treat highly specific types of cancer.
neMjY TIL that the world literacy rate went from 76% to 86% since 1985.
vPjZ4 TIL that Double Indemnity director Billy Wilder was so frustrated with his film not winning any of its 7 Oscar nominations, that he purposely tripped Best Director winner Leo McCarey at the 1945 Academy Awards as McCarey went to accept his award
8eykL TIL of the Basilisk of Warsaw, a mythical creature that allegedly terrorised 16th-century Poland and was ‘defeated’ by a criminal in a mirrored suit of armour.