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TIL Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is a cover of Nine Inch Nails, and not the other way around

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woNKM TIL in 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyoncé. This was due to the release of a box set commemorating the 225th anniversary of Mozart’s death including 200 discs per set. Each disc counted as a separate sale, propelling Mozart ahead of contemporary artists in CD sales the year.
OG8aa TIL: Classic comedy movie "Airplane!" was based on "Zero Hour!" which was based on a teleplay called "Flight Into Danger" which starred James Doohan -- Original Star Trek's Scotty --- as the disgraced war pilot who saves the plane.
Lkw49 TIL about quintuplets that were forced to be raised in a “zoo” when the Canada government took them away from their parents so the queen could have them paraded for her enjoyment.
69r57 TIL about Catatumbo Lightning, an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. This leads the lake to have the highest density of lightning in the world, sometimes with 16 to 40 flashes per minute.
VBM7k TIL that the Shunganunga boulder, a 23-ton red quartzite rock, was moved by glaciers from the Dakotas to Kansas hundreds of thousands of years ago; the boulder is sacred to the Kanza tribe (expelled from the state named after them) and Shunganunga translates to "Big Red Rock" in their language.