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

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NXyNQ TIL 1 Gian Gaston’s de Medici, the last Medici duke of Tuscany, spent the last 8 years of his life-barring two occasions- bedridden with a sprained ankle
Mexm TIL the “color bars” TV test pattern won an Emmy in 2001-2002 (for engineering, 30 years after it was invented)
eppNL TIL Movie theaters in Iceland, Switzerland, Egypt, Turkey and India have an intermission in the middle of the movie. It lasts around 10 minutes, which allows customers to hit the concession stalls or use the restroom
l7lOa TIL that the Pan Am plane in the Tenerife disaster was also the first Boeing 747 to fly commercially, as well as being the first 747 to be hijacked. It was named 'Clipper Victor.'
OV9g TIL that only 59% of people voted in favor of repealing the ban on interracial marriage in Alabama in 2000