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TIL A machine in the Moscow subway dispenses a free ticket if you do 30 squats

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9wAAr TIL that Leonard Cohen didn’t gain any royalties from his 1968 song "Suzanne", and he only benefited from the song when he performed it live, as he signed away his rights to the song in a legal document deceptively presented to him which he did not read.
16BnW TIL that a Commodore 64 program was hidden in the "run-out groove" of the 1984 vinyl record album Electric Eye by the band Prodigal. When the program is loaded and run on the Commodore computer, it displays quotes from Albert Einstein and the Bible.
6EQ6Y TIL that exclusive sale rights of colchicine, a 2000-year-old treatment for gout, was given to a pharmaceutical company in 2009. They raised the price 50x, costing the government over $50 million/year.
OkK6 TIL: The ORANGE is cross between two common fruits, a pomelo and a mandarin, so its a hybrid.
epe7D TIL the live action/animated 2007-15 Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise grossed $1.4 billion against a budget of just $300 million.