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TIL Paul McCartney recorded the song Wonderful Christmastime entirely on his own during the sessions for his second solo album. In 2010 it was estimated that the song earns $400,000 a year, putting the overall earnings at $15 million.

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8apBL TIL Project Grizzly is a documentary about a Canadian man who, inspired by Robocop and a bear encounter, determined to make bear-proof body armor. In it he's beaten with 2X4s, thrown off a cliff, and slammed into by a truck at 50km/hr. It's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite documentaries.
VMLBp TIL rather than try to save himself, Abraham Zelmanowitz, computer programmer and 9/11 victim, chose to stay in the tower and accompany his quadriplegic friend who had no way of getting out.
xV5Mk TIL that along with making AK-47s, Kalashnikov is now starting to make electric cars
XVvP TIL that all of the 14 billion publicly accessible web sites are connected to each other by 19 clicks or less.
b6WkN TIL that the inventors of INSULIN sold the patent in 1923 to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 saying they felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Two of the inventors won the Nobel Prize in 1923 and split the money with the two others not included