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TIL: Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world.

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MlmK TIL there was a crazy theory that the half-brother of Japan’s first Shogun survived the Shogun’s wrath after being seen as a political threat, and escaped to Mongolia. There he settled and changed his name to Genghis Khan.
0wQMy TIL Jerry Zucker, the director of Airplane! and Top Secret as well as a writer for Naked Gun, was the director for Ghost (1990) with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg
BrmEL TIL about Yoshie Shiratori, who broke out of prison four times, and most famously was the only person in history to break out of Abishiri prison in Hokkaido, Japan.
5Y0RD TIL That the way to tell the difference between a blackberry and a black raspberry is whether or not the stem sticks to the fruit or the root system when plucked!
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