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TIL the amount of charitable donations made by Americans roughly matches the national deficit.

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89gK TIL Youtube has paid Rick Astley only $12 for his hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” despite the video having almost 100,000,000 views
NXP7M TIL in 2014, McDonald's revealed that Grimace, their purple monster mascot, is "the embodiment of a milkshake or a taste bud."
4kXEJ TIL Indianapolis Motor Speedway was originally paved with 3.2 million bricks, it took workers only 63 days to pave the entire circuit.
QPQd TIL the US discontinued the half cent in 1857, when it had more buying power than a dime has today.
nepG9 TIL 1938 film 'The Terror of Tiny Town' is the world's only musical Western with an all Dwarf cast. Producer Jed Buell was inspired after overhearing an employee remark "If this economic dive keeps going, we'll be using midgets as actors".