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TIL vanilla extract is required to be at least 35% alcohol

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6E5Am TIL: that the Chinese government has an AI survelliance system that uses +20M cameras and facial recognition to track citizens behavior and monitor criminals. They officially named it: “Skynet” - because of Terminator...!
pgV8 TIL that drug lord Pablo Escobar had an estimated net worth of $30 billion by the early 1990s, equivalent to about $55 billion in 2016.
W70KL TIL that the "Wright" in the name of today's billion-dollar aviation company Curtiss-Wright is the literally the same business the Wright Brothers started after they achieved the first airplane flight (albeit after a couple of mergers).
Dr1r TIL that ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves
ZGmG TIL Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel’s networth is $1.5 billion at the age of 24, making him the world’s youngest billionaire