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TIL PornHub is worth 1.5 billion dollars in net worth.

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R7b9 TIL president Jimmy Carter left the nuclear launch codes in his suit at the dry cleaners.
b69ZN TIL that some of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums varied from bizarre albums like The Shaggs' Philosophy Of The World, to underground experimental rock like the Young God EP by Swans, to endearing outsider music like Yip/Jump Music by Daniel Johnston(RIP)
J1KB4 TIL that Charles Schulz, the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, was an avid hockey fan/player and was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993 for his contributions to the sport
N7GwN TIL A 10-year-old boy's life was saved from choking after his friend performed the Heimlich maneuver that he learned from The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat".
gMWkA TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.