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

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yKBJ TIL Russian scientist successfully cloned a plant that became extinct 30000 years ago (in the Pleistocene age), the plant bore fruit and continued reproducing on it’s own.
OovbX TIL Vanilla Ice owns the Queen/Bowie song "Under Pressure"
QNg9X TIL that Bourton-on-the-Water, an English village, contains a model of the village that is so accurate that the model contains a second smaller model of itself
69NGX TIL that in 2000 Nintendo, after receiving numerous complaints about children getting hand injuries by playing Mario Party, settled the case and agreed to provide up to four protective gloves to each household of consumers who own the game (up to $80mil), and also cover the cost of investigation
781BL TIL trepanation involved drilling holes into the skull. Contrary to popular belief, not all patients subjected to it died. Archaeologists have found many skulls with partially healed openings, suggesting that some survived the procedure.