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TIL A Tribe Called Quest hasn’t made a penny off of “Can I Kick It?” Lou Reed took 100% of all royalties and publishing because the song sampled the bass line from his hit “Walk on the Wild Side.”

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dJa8 TIL the US education system is ranked 14th best in the world. Just behind Russia.
AZDo TIL spykids received a 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, better than, say, Lincoln or The Dark Knight Rises.
olMA TIL that they used to call it “the calculus” (as in, I’ve studied the calculus, Newton invented the calculus, etc) because “calculus” used to be a generic name for any abstract theory until “the calculus” overshadowed all the other calculuses.
EooX TIL That 78% of NFL players file bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement.
4kOOJ TIL about Project West Ford, a Cold War project done by MIT on behalf of the US military. It was an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere around the Earth by launching millions of copper needles into orbit.