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TIL Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' is the most popular music in British funeral. Other popular songs include football show and soap opera themes.

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1MXP TIL that the company that produces Sriracha hot sauce made $60 million in the year 2012 alone, while not spending one penny at all on advertising.
yVJow TIL that the instrument in Samba music that makes a sound like rubbing a balloon or a McDonalds straw in a cup is a percussion instrument called a cuica.
6MB7 TIL that no one, including an expert Belgian botanist, could find a method of pollination of vanilla to make it viable for cultivation outside of South America… until a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius discovered it could be hand-pollinated. This led to the global cultivation of the plant.
0wRQA TIL the officers who assassinated japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi in 1932 also planned to kill his then guest Charlie Chaplin, in the hopes that this would provoke a war with the United States.
BrJJW TIL Wet Wet Wet lead Marty Pellow had their hit song Love is All Around removed from sales not long after going to the cinema and hearing someone say "God, not that song again!" as the Four Weddings trailer played, it was still selling 120k copies/week when it was pulled 3.5 months after release.