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TIL that Unilever and Procter & Gamble have been fined $456 million for fixing the prices of washing powder in 8 European countries in 2011. The fines were reduced by 10% after the 2 industry giants admitted to organizing a cartel. Their rival Henkel, who provided the tip-off, wasn't fined in return

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d8Old TIL that you can use dog blood to save a cat in need of a transfusion, but only once. Cats have no natural antibodies to dog blood, but then they will develop them after exposure. Any future transfusions must then use cat blood.
Gaxg TIL in 2006 Ticketmaster President Sean Moriarty publically pleaded for legislation that would make the selling of concert tickets from person to person illegal except through Ticketmaster.
EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
WkOyB TIL the first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three others to also become the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history (almost exactly 16 years in office)
oBgyr TIL that a 'knot' is tied in a single piece of rope. Something that ties two pieces of string together is called a 'bend'.