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TIL A typical Rihanna single hit costs around $75,000 to make, another million to promote it, and the lyrics are written in about 15 minutes.

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8XwX TIL: In 2011 there were 3 known cases around the world of twins coming from different fathers.
RJoa TIL of the ‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they oftenpainted it on their lips and teeth for fun. They began to develop radium necrosis, causing their jaws to rot and develop disfiguring tumors, and eventually died.
mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
0jDy TIL Snickers were named after the Mars family horse, it’s the #1 selling candy bar in the world, and about $2 billion worth are sold every year.
a74J TIL that if a Lion fights a Tiger, experts believe “the tiger will always win.”