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TIL that Fox News viewers were shown to have more misconceptions than other channel’s viewers

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R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.
d7Bd TIL The movie “The Scorpion King 4” is the sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a spinoff of the sequel of a remake that is currently getting a reboot trilogy.
pYe4b TIL Duke Kahanamoku was not only a 5-time Olympic medalist in swimming, but also a pioneering surfer who is credited with popularizing surfing around the world. Later in life Kahanamoku was elected to serve as the Sheriff of Honolulu, Hawaii from 1932 to 1961.
KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
koE5 TIL Chef Ramsey left one of his first big kitchen positions because he didn’t like the bullying and rages of others.