TIL in 2023 Disney made more profit from churros sales at its theme parks than it did for Disney+ streaming.
https://crossscreen.media/state-of-the-screens/is-selling-churros-a-better-business-for-disney-than-streaming/

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TIL the Central African Republic requires you to live there for 35 years, own land, and be awarded a national honour to become eligible for citizenship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_nationality_law

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TIL Only one person has died so far in the Catacombs of Paris, In 1793, a man died in the catacombs. It is thought that he lost his light source and was left to die in the darkness. In 1804, 11 years later, his body was found, a few meters from a staircase that led to an exit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris

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TIL The Italian-American Civil Rights League campaigned to have the word "Mafia" considered a racial epithet. They were a Mafia front.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Civil_Rights_League

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TIL Drew Barrymore financed production for the 2001 cult favorite film Donnie Darko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko

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TIL while all puppies from the same litter are fraternal twins, identical twins are extremely rare with only one verified case occurring in a pair of Irish wolfhounds in South Africa.
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/ask-a-vet-can-dogs-have-identical-twins/

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TIL a 10-yr-old boy survived after he fell from a treehouse trying to escape a swarm of yellow jackets & landed face-first on a foot-long metal skewer. It went through his face, leaving six inches sticking out. However even at that depth, it didn't hit anything critical & barely injured him at all.
https://www.today.com/health/boy-impaled-metal-skewer-face-will-fully-recover-t137360

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TIL about the the Lobster War, when Brazil declared war on France for illegally catching lobsters off its shores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War

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TIL that the phrase "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is from Thucydides' Melian Dialogue. A classic example of political realism, it describes an Athenian ultimatum to the neutral island of Melos: submit or be destroyed. The Melians chose death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Melos

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TIL about ‘TV pickup,’ a UK phenomenon where breaks in popular television programmes trigger a surge in electricity demand due kettles being switched on simultaneously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

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TIL Costco has a company policy that no regular item will be marked up more than 14% over cost & no Kirkland Signature item will be marked up more than 15% over cost. Costco runs "very lean", with overhead costs at 10% of revenue & profit margins at 2% (e.g. it has no PR dept. & buys no outside ads)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#:~:text=One%20company%20rule%20states,advertising.%5B120%5D

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TIL while most ancient Romans were cremated, any Roman killed by a lightning strike was thought to have been struck down by Jupiter and had to be buried on the spot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidental

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TIL Frank Ocean seemingly pulled a fast one on Def Jam/Universal when he fulfilled his contractual obligations to them by releasing a visual album (Endless) that wasn't for sale & was available on Apple Music. Then the next day he dropped Blond, a "proper" album for sale on Apple under his own label
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/frank-ocean-endless-album-straw-broke-universal-music-back-may-get-sued-7487032/

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TIL that Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, a former porn star and Italian MP, offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region. She first made the offer while in office, renewed it in October 2002, and extended the same proposal to Osama bin Laden in April 2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller?wprov=sfla1

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TIL that William H. Macy, the actor who played the deadbeat dad Frank Gallagher on Shameless, was the original narrator of the children's show Curious George for its entire first season
https://www.looper.com/426439/this-is-who-narrates-curious-george/

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TIL In 256 AD 20 Roman soldiers died trying to defend an underground tunnel during the siege of Dura-Europos after the attackers launched a chemical attack using a concoction of sulphur. The site, discovered intact in the 1930's, offers the earliest physical remnants of chemical warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Dura-Europos_(256)#Use_of_chemical_weapons

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TIL about Bush Coconuts, an Australian aboriginal foodsource that's definitely not vegan, but said to taste very much like coconut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_coconut?wprov=sfla1

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TIL: Mr. Hooper, one of the first human characters in Sesame Street from 1969 to his death in 1982, was blacklisted from many mainstream acting roles for about five years during the McCarthy era for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hooper

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TIL The original "Dogs Playing Poker" painting is from 1894
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker

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TIL that After the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final, over 550,000 fans flooded the streets of Zagreb to welcome home the Croatia national football team—making it the largest public gathering in Croatia’s history, even though they finished as runners-up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_final

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