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TIL Beyoncé earned $24 million for a one-hour concert in Dubai

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0dRKR TIL Japan is the only country in the world to use 100v AC, and that the frequency varies (50hz in the east, 60hz in the west) because they bought equipment from two different manufacturers/countries
wG97 TIL there is a Super Smash Bros fanfic that is over 3x longer than the entire Harry Potter series
VBJ4G TIL Benjamin Franklin ran the first placebo-controlled blind experiment. In 1782 King Louis XIV hired a group of scientists to investigate Franz Anton Mesmer's medical practices. Mesmer's cures were tried against nothing/fake treatments and ultimately the fakes worked as well as the 'real' cures.
PYX9G TIL about the Dale, the first space age automobile
16grD TIL There are an estimated 26 million sheep in New Zealand. The total human population in New Zealand is 5.1 million people. That's 5 sheep for every human in New Zealand.