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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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xVkRB TIL one theory why the human sense of smell is worse than our closest ancestors (monkeys and apes)is that since the start of agriculture, humans have been forced to live in crowded tents and huts with many other people, so we evolved a weaker sense of smell to better deal with it.
e0PdE TIL that most sex in giraffes are homosexual in nature and mostly involves male-male sex.
d1NB TIL that the government of Nazi Germany memorialized the victims of European witch trials of the 16th to 18th centuries, as they thought witchcraft represented the remnant of an indigenous “Aryan” religion untainted by the Judaic influence of Christianity.
p8Zw8 TIL that Princess Diana wouldn't wear Chanel after her divorce as the double CC logo reminded her of Camilla and Charles
ydYp TIL Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover. She declined because the screenplay ‘had no potential’