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TIL just 54% of U.S. adults can read at a sixth-grade reading level

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oBkkY TIL despite being 8 times smaller, Spotify pays music artists twice as much as YouTube does. The music industry makes more money selling vinyl records than from YouTube.
XKBP TIL That in 2009 Chris Hemsworth filmed 2 movies (Cabin and the Woods and Red Dawn) but due to MGM’s financial troubles, they weren’t released until 2012, after the success of Thor. It also explains why he wasn’t really the main character in either film.
168W8 TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
b6oQZ TIL, Xerox's Daybreak computer had an emulator for IBM PC as early as 1985, and this was many years before VMs were made for regular home computers.
4XZPR TIL an average silver back can deadlift 1800 lb and their grip can crush a crocodile's skull | They are 4 to 9 times stronger than an average human male.