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TIL the most shoplifted food in the world is cheese.

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d8RkK TIL South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut’s major themes were censorship and controversy surrounding young viewers being exposed to mature themes in film. Their film ended up being the most viewed R-Rated film by underage viewers of the year.
e0y86 TIL Kevin Carter, the photographer that received a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph he took of a starving boy and vulture in South Sudan ended up taking his own life in 1994 with this suicide note “haunted by vivid memories and killings & corpses...starving children...of trigger happy madmen”
WkM99 TIL a cycling company was seeing a high number of its bikes getting damaged during deliveries; they solved the problem by making a simple change: printing a flatscreen television screen on the boxes. Damages were reduced by 70%
Wk4G9 TIL what about progressive JPEG. A method of compressing and loading images on the Web
4ywN TIL NBC cancelled Rob Lowe’s “Lyon’s Den” show after 6 episodes but forced Lowe and creator to film the remaining episodes for DVD. Those two holding creative rights, filmed it as “absurd as possible” incl revealing the main character as a mass murderer