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TIL the company that made Candy Crush was acquired for 5.9 billion while Lucasfilm was purchased by Disney for only 4 billion.

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OG0a7 TIL almost 100 years before railroads, England’s Bridgewater Canal made it so one horse could pull 30 tons of coal, dropping the fuel price in half. It was so successful that it created a 1770’s “canal mania” starting the Industrial Revolution.
YpyPW TIL of Shibari, a term for erotic bondage inspired by Japanese aesthetics. This style of bondage involves tying a person up using visually intricate patterns with several pieces of thin rope, usually emphasizing the person’s physical features.
ljQN TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England…for about 5 weeks.
1BYO TIL that just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue correspondent, Elizabeth Miller entered Hitler’s abandoned apartment and was photographed taking a bath in his tub
VZB8 TIL that the analysis of the camera of the Surveyor 3 lunar landing probe, which was brought back by the crew of Apollo 12 in 1969, two years after it landed, showed that bacteria that had entered it during manufacturing had survived the lunar conditions.