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TIL: Class action lawsuits are not really for the consumers

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AXx7 TIL that Steve Irwin told his cameramen to keep rolling in case of an alligator attack, so that his last words would be “crikey” as he is going down the belly of the alligator.
PYQMO TIL the birth rate in the U.S. in 2018 fell to the lowest level in 32 years. For perspective, this was lower than in the years after the Great Depression.
WkXno TIL about the art piece "Machine with Concrete" by Arthur Ganson. It's a series of gears and screws driven at 200RPM that end in a final gear embedded in concrete. At that speed it will take over 2 trillion years for the final gear to turn once.
R5rl1 TIL that in 2007-08, The Wiggles were Australia's highest paid entertainers - earning a gross income of $45mil - beating out Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett
1a8EO TIL Lennon and McCartney almost got in a fistfight over Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da, with John calling it Paul's "granny music sh*t".