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TIL that Nickelback is the second most successful foreign band in the US ever behind The Beatles

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5bBQ TIL that the “voice” of Gizmo from the movie Gremlins, was done by Howie Mandel
GYyPG TIL that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an "amber ale" with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.