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TIL Many of Benny Blanco's early tracks are at 120 BPM, the default tempo in Pro Tools, and he didn't realize he could adjust it, so he ended up using that tempo for many of his initial projects. This included hits like Kesha's "Tik Tok," Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite”

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OGQnR TIL in order for a private citizen to run for President in Singapore, they have to be CEO of a company worth at least $500M ($370M USD).
dD5aK TIL that a man named Chris Clark bought the domain "pizza.com" in 1994 for only $20 plus maintenance fees and sold it for $2.6 million at auction in 2008
m1GNP TIL there are over 2,000 species of native bee in Australia alone
vxmR TIL that mandatory right-hand traffic was introduced in Europe by Napoleon with the aim of deterring swordfighting on horseback, and because the traditional left-hand traffic was seen as aristocratic. Since he never conquered Britain, left-hand driving would remain there.
AN07a TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.