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TIL that Warren Beatty reprises his role of Dick Tracy for free with unwatchable gibberish every couple of years to stop anyone else doing it.

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XEbLj TIL that although the Inca Empire was the largest and wealthiest empire in South America for a time, Inca society had neither a currency nor a concept of money. The economy was so well-planned that everyone had access to what they needed.
RJY7 TIL: Benjamin Franklin inadvertently electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a Turkey.
rKnw TIL that when the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was passed, only the birdseed industry successfully lobbied against it by arguing that hemp seeds gave birds shinier feathers than other seeds. Because of this, birdseed producers are legally allowed to import hemp seeds into the US (deactivated) today.
wYnW TIL in 2011 a member of Anonymous was kidnapped by the mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. He was released when Anonymous posted a video to youtube that threatened to expose photos and names of several people who collaborated with the cartel such as police officers and taxi drivers.
Z8gg4 TIL of Sally Miller Gearhart, a feminist scholar who proposed reducing the male population because they are 'corrosive to female-led social change."