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TIL Katie Holmes was paid $3 Million a year on a 5 year contract to marry Tom Cruise - plus bonuses for children

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yQjJM TIL many of the modern holiday standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "Silver and Gold", and "Run Rudolph Run" were written by a single Jewish American songwriter named Johnny Marks.
gMywL TIL that an island in the middle of Loch Lomond in Scotland is home to roughly 60 wallabies
JY1ZV TIL 8 million dog mummies have been discovered in the catacombs of the sacred temple of Anubis in Egypt
vMDD TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it
m1YKv TIL Ngerulmud, Palau is the least populous national capital in the world, with a population less than half of that of the Vatican.