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TIL that Terry Fox started a marathon across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Today the Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $750 million in his name

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9wAAr TIL that Leonard Cohen didn’t gain any royalties from his 1968 song "Suzanne", and he only benefited from the song when he performed it live, as he signed away his rights to the song in a legal document deceptively presented to him which he did not read.
Brn6D TIL that summer in Japan is considered the season for ghost stories/spooky events and has the same eerie resonance as Halloween does for the U.S. The tradition comes from the Buddhist festival of the dead (Obon) which takes place in summer.
PY0kJ TIL Mel Brooks was in the US Army during WW2 and defused German land mines during the American advance into Germany.
Wkjad TIL that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) had the smallest budget of all the Star Trek movies, only $12m. It is often considered by many, to be the best of one
84BP TIL that between the 1630s and the American Revolution, one-half to two-thirds of white immigrants to the American colonies arrived under a voluntary (yet temporary) form of slavery, in which they typically received no wages, and some rights, such as the right to marry, were restricted.