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TIL that 90% of the news we read and listen to is controlled by six companies.

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Xak8 TIL Helga Estby walked across America to win a $10,000 prize to save her home. When she finished, the sponsor refused to pay out. She returned home and found two of her children died in her absence, then she lost her house.
ld5V TIL Switzerland is abbreviated to ‘CH’ because of its Latin name, ‘Confoederatio Helvetica.’ - Latin is also still used on stamps and coins
oBB9Y TIL that in 2004 Kevin Spacey claimed he was mugged by "a kid" at 4:30 in the morning, then changed his story to police several hours later, claiming instead that he fell
bZ9p TIL German actor Conrad Veidt (“Casablanca”, “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, and inspiration for The Joker) was so anti-Nazi that Hitler ordered him assassinated. He managed to escape Germany and make his way to Hollywood. Once there, he was quickly typecast as a Nazi.
b6Zw0 TIL an airline passenger forced an emergency landing when they refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s song “I Will Always Love You”