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TIL 6 companies control 90% of American broadcast media (FOX, CNN, NBC, WSJ, ABC, etc.)

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MeygK Today I learned that the US government can’t negotiate drug prices because of a law making it illegal.
b6m5Q TIL North Carolina gave $20 million in taxpayer dollars to clean up dead farm animals after Hurricane Florence, then also reimbursed farmers for the animals
d87P8 TIL the WWE is staged - completely scripted
4pmJ TIL While US army officer Braxton Bragg held both the job as the company commander and the post quartermaster, he made a request as commander to the quartermaster and when he received the request as quartermaster, he denied it. He continued to argue back and forth with himself through letters.
pLMA TIL of Camp Century, a top-secret US military base built under the ice sheets of Greenland in 1960 to house missiles. Built under the cover of climate research, it housed 200 people and was powered by the world’s first portable nuclear reactor. Denmark didn’t uncover the base’s existence until 1995.