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TIL that Jay Penske, son of the founder of Penske Corporation, owns the media company that owns Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline Hollywood, Robb Report, IndieWire, TVLine, and the Golden Globes.

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B9WD TIL it was widely believed in the 17th and 18th centuries that man was powered by explosions, such that 23,000 times a day, a human breathed in air containing nitrous particles that, combined with the fire of the heart or the sparks of nerves, created the small explosions that moved the body.
7rpv7 TIL of Anna Bates, a giantess from Canada. She was married to another giant, Martin van Buren, with whom she conceived worlds largest baby ever recorded weighing 10.7 Kg and measuring at 75cm tall.
vp4r TIL that the Danish woman Karen Jeppe freed 2000 women and children during the Armenian Genocide, and helped many others.
WG04 TIL - Ginger Baker, Drummer of 60s band Cream, does not receive royalties, despite creating the band and contributing to many of their songs.
lVRV TIL there’s video of Saddam Hussein becoming dictator of Iraq in 1979 at a Baath party leadership meeting, where he named some members as traitors – and then ordered the rest to go outside and execute them