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TIL Lego used dust from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite to 3D print bricks.

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0m1N TIL the Addams Family was originally a group of macabre cartoon characters whose exploits were published in The New Yorker.
YANd TIL that the boxing announcer who came up with that catchphrase “let’s get ready to rumble” trademarked the phrase and has made more than $400 million by licensing it.
7p4Z TIL a band bought $20k worth of their own tickets from ticketmaster and sold them back to fans at face value eating all the ticketmaster extortion fees.
jNvZE TIL the Harry Potter books sold roughly the same as the movies at $7.7 billion USD
gr0jW TIL of Witzelsucht, a neurological condition which causes people to compulsively tell inappropriate puns or stories in social situations.