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TIL The music industry is on deaths door in terms of sale

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6Dv7 TIL that the Russian version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ had to scrap the 'ask the audience’ lifeline as the audience would intentionally give the wrong answer.
LkKov TIL that the Andean condor can fly for over 5 hours without flapping, covering over 170 kilometres in the process.
8aRXX TIL a nurse paid over $400,000 to a Nigerian 419 scam over the course of 3 years re-mortgaging her house and using her husband's retirement savings
kJYEg TIL "the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown" is a special from 1988 that was meant to be Charles Schulz's most ambitious peanuts special it costed millions of dollars he later commented and said "I wanted this to be my Citizen Kane, but it's not." The special was not well-received upon its airing
jNG1X TIL the short-lived Korean Empire (1897-1910), eager to modernize, purchased a ship from Japan spending 30% of its entire military budget. It turned out to be a deceptively packaged cargo ship useless for combat. Japan later took it back after dismantling the military and colonizing the nation.