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TIL only 5% of average musicians' income comes from music sales, and only 12% of overall music industry income goes to the performers

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GPMJ TIL that McDonald’s faced controversy when they opened their first stores in the U.K. Applicants were asked if they wished to contribute money to an I.R.A. McDonald’s was referring to an Individual Retirement Account, but the public assumed they meant the Irish Republican Army.
j6jYj TIL A brown dwarf star is 13 to 80 times the size of Jupiter but doesn't have enough mass to fuse hydrogen (they can fuse deuterium and massive ones can fuse lithium). Because of the lack of energy some brown dwarfs put out little to no light and can have a surface temperature as low as -23C (-10F).
7Jwx TIL when John Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers. Carmack concocted a sticky substance of Thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an accomplice set off an alarm & alerted police. Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
4XeoN TIL that a sewer worker accidentally discovered a drain that would lead right to the bank of England's gold vault. He then requested to meet the directors at any time of their choosing inside the vault, and appeared out of the floorboards at the specified time.
wkoP TIL carrots weren’t orange originally. Orange carrots were cultivated by Dutch farmers in the 17th century as a tribute to their king William of Orange