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

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GAZYQ TIL the 2007 PS3 game The Darkness contains a viewable version of the entire 1962 film To Kill A Mockingbird during a cutscene with the main character and his girlfriend.
VBEZB TIL that "diesel therapy" is a form of punishment used by the US prison system. Inmates are taken on excessively long journeys of days or weeks between prisons, shackled without water or AC in hot buses with poor sanitation.
OoVQL TIL that the name "Lucifer" means "bearer of Light". it is banned in New Zealand and in Germany, a couple wasn't allowed to use the name due to it's connotation with Satan and evil. While in USA, a record 13 baby boys were named this in 2016.
d8VPr TIL the Miwok (N California) played a game similar to soccer. Played by both sexes, girls were allowed to do anything, including kicking the ball & picking it up & running with it, while boys were only allowed to use their feet, but if a girl was holding the ball he could pick her up and carry her
P1pmn TIL in 1941, Allied forces fought a successful delaying action against the invading Nazis at Thermopylae, the very spot where Spartans fought a successful delaying action against the invading Persians in 480 B.C.