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TIL 100% of royalties from the Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' go to the Rolling Stones due to the string arrangement being taken from an orchestral version of 'The Last Time', even though it wasn't the Stones' own work.

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gAob TIL Playboy’s circulation reached its peak at 7 million in 1972, down to about 1.5 million today
OGEd4 TIL that in 2012, a 19 year old Nebraska woman named Hannah Sabata robbed a bank and stole a car.After seemingly getting away with it, she went home and uploaded a video titled "Chick Bank Robber", showing off her stolen items. She was arrested the same day.
v1jWx TIL that someone did the math and the more Tom Cruise runs, the better his movies are.
woyxP TIL French sailor Narcisse Pelletier was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia. He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family who adopted him and named him Amglo, for the next 17 years, until he was found by the crew of the John Bell in 1875.
Eggjo TIL Astronomers measure sunspot areas using a square grid by placing the grid over the photo of a sunspot and count the number of squares covering it. Areas can also be determined using graphical charts and software