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TIL that Amazon pays music artists $0.00402 per stream, so to earn $1830.85 in a month it would require 366,169 streams.

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Jwd1 TIL That Chris Brown is Banned From Entering the UK Because of His Assault Involving Rihanna
epZl5 TIL that Nauru, the third smallest country in the world (8sq miles) had a 10 year civil war in 1878 that saw the island's population fall from ~1500 to >1000, sparked by the introduction of firearms. It eventually ended when the German Empire intervened and confiscated >700 rifles.
9Y0XB TIL: The US recognizes the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, an international consensus. However, 10 individual US states passed bills "recognizing" the territory's claim to independence, but also 2 US states officially recognize the territory as Azerbaijani territory.
yD1X TIL “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthetic ‘wearing off,’ but also of the brain finding its way back through a maze of possible activity states to those that allow conscious experience,” one researcher said. “Put simply, the brain reboots itself.”
XmkX TIL The shortest living human on record (Pauline Musters) stood only 1 foot 11.2 inches in height and died at 19 from pneumonia and meningitis.