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TIL Alaska residents receive an annual dividend check funded from investment earnings of statewide mineral royalties.

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jNrKp TIL Rockstar Games thought it was so important to include the song "Walk The Night" in GTA IV, that they hired a private investigator to look up the relatives of Delaney (who died in 2003) so they could find whoever holds the rights of the song now in order to make a licensing deal.
oBM77 TIL The song "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen was part of a 2 year FBI investigation for possible obscene lyrics. After playing the song forward, backwards and at different speeds the lyrics were still indecipherable.
nWxX9 TIL about Ordinal-linguistic personification (OLP) which is the automatic assignment of personalities and genders to the members of ordinal lists like numbers, days or letters.
87k8 TIL Norwegian Public Television station NRK is famous for airing utterly boring programming, such as a 12-hour live log-burning show and a 5-hour knitting special. The programming, known as “Slow TV”, reportedly achieves decent ratings
7rynX TIL when entering your address for credit card verification, you only need to type in the street/house number. Like 1600, not 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.