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TIL 'All I Want for Christmas' nets Mariah Carey $500,000 in royalties each Christmas.

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Dlag TIL that the human body has more than sixty kinds of sphincters.
XEErD TIL of the 115 cases reviewed with LexisNexis and newspaper sources, Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, was wrong in twenty-five, and the remaining ninety either have no available details outside of the transcript or the crime is unsolved, leaving no way to confirm Browne’s claims
lQxA TIL the Hanging Gardens of Babylon likely existed in the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Assyrian king Sennacherib had a garden matching the Babylon garden descriptions which was built after the Assyrian takeover of Babylon. Nineveh was then referred to as “New Babylon” causing the name discrepancy.
X0nMP TIL that lichens cover about 7% of the Earth's surface; about the same size as the Indian Ocean
W7GJ8 TIL that 'The Most Dangerous Animal in the World' was a 1963 exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. It featured a mirror and text describing the dangers humans pose to life on earth.