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TIL the Friends cast each receive $20m royalties per year and NBC receives $1bn in revenue

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VnMm TIL that in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ Robert Downey Jr.’s character says “I don’t drop character 'til I’ve done the DVD commentary.” When doing the actual DVD commentary, RDJ does it in the characters Lincoln Osiris and Kirk Lazarus.
KYMGJ TIL that Margaret Hamilton, Computer Scientist, who is known for 'Leading the team that created the on-board flight software' for the Apollo missions, wasn't even hired until after the completed software had already flown to the moon in Apollo 8.
E10ox TIL that Göttingen, a small German university town, was for centuries one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history, developing geniuses such as Gauss, Riemann and Hilbert. But its fall took less than a decade when its stars were pushed abroad by the Nazis.
oBegE TIL it is not illegal to drive barefoot, and the thought that it is illegal is simply a wide-spread urban legend
j0wQ TIL that red Solo cups are a common souvenir for foreigners to bring back from the USA.