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TIL that Spotify's payment per stream averaged out to $0.0060396 in 2019 in the US

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5YmWr TIL that French people referred to Marie Antoinette as ", l'Autrichienne" which literally means Austrian woman but with emphasis on word "chienne" which means "bitch". So she was called Austrian bitch.
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