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TIL that Tootsie Roll is a publicly traded company with a $2 billion market cap. It's run by an 88 year old lady.

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4a9J TIL A shibboleth is a word that can only be said correctly by native speakers. During WW2, American troops used the word “lollapalooza” to check unidentified people. Japanese spies would often go to areas posing as allied men, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, they would kill them.
9YPA6 TIL 25% of global land use and land-use change is driven by beef production.
py94 TIL: Randy Quaid (National Lampoon’s Cousin Eddy) is a wanted felon
1aWy7 TIL Thomas Paine enlisted and briefly served as a privateer, which was basically a state sanctioned pirate.
j6V4n TIL Humans consume the equivalent of a credit card worth of plastic every week: Report