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TIL Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero than any album

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wLA7E TIL on Halloween 1992, a BBC mock documentary "Ghostwatch" was mistaken for a real one amongst most of its 11 million UK viewers (receiving 20,000 complaints about its scary content), and was never broadcast again after that experience
dD76Q Today I learned that Lucille Ball sent flowers to Carol Burnett on the latter's birthday every year. The last year Burnett received flowers from Ball was 1989. In that year, Burnett's birthday was also the day of Ball's death.
8aOyV TIL necrogamy (posthumous marriage) is legal in France. The living partner must send the President a request, have a serious reason, prove the couple were planning to marry, and get approval from the family of the deceased. At the ceremony, the living partner stands next to a picture of their fiancé
NGeN TIL that the Iranian government can, and will, sentence its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam
QJLma TIL that the earth was known to be spherical by most European scholars since the 3rd century bc