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TIL James Patterson has made more than $700M having sold more than 425M copies of his books.

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GYEO4 TIL that the first British animated film "Animal Farm" was secretly produced and funded by the CIA as anti-Communist propaganda
6EjkY TIL one of the few times Pink Floyd allowed the music to be used for corporate advertising was a bizarre 1973 ad for Dole bananas.
4XEoo TIL 12-year-old Jessica Maple solved a burglary case after she found clues officers had missed when investigating a robbery at her late great-grandmother's house. She then tracked missing items to a pawn shop, got the thieves' picture IDs from the manager, and confronted the burglars herself.
J1Q4j TIL Eric Idle of Monty Python responded to physicst Brian Cox's criticism of his "Galaxy song" by creating a sketch where Cox gets run over by Stephen Hawking
lJ4G TIL that Scientology has its own prison, named “The Hole”, where Scientology executives are sent for months or even years of confinement, manual labour and humiliation.