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TIL Selena Gomez became a billionaire in 2024 thanks to her make-up company

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6ErWl TIL of Musopen, a non-profit org. that provides high-quality recordings of classical music in the public domain, so that anyone can use them. The project emerged as a response to the big corporations in the music industry that were burying old artists, like Beethoven and Chopin, behind copyright
bQOa TIL in 1853 a candidate for governor in California accidentally campaigned in Oregon so they named the town after him
8eJnP TIL Jim Carey spoke to someone who trained operatives at the CIA who was an expert on resisting torture since Carey was forced to sit in makeup chairs for hours everyday while they applied the Grinch makeup and prosthetics on him for the movie.
roWw TIL that, in medieval Europe, scales were used to weigh suspected witches to determine whether or not they should be burned at the stake
WZB9 TIL of Wild West robber Black Bart, who was noted for his polite, chivalrous attitude. In one instance, when robbing a Wells Fargo stagecoach, he refused to take a woman’s purse, opting instead to just take the company’s money.