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TIL Benjamin Burnley, the lead singer of Breaking Benjamin, was asked by EA to speak positively of Star Wars Battlefront in exchange for money. His response: "They wanted to pay me to post that I like this piece of shit game. They can shove it up their ass. This game sucks..."

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dNaj TIL a persian astronomer discovered Andromeda Galaxy way back in 964 AD
ORRa TIL of Manaus, a Brazilian city of 2 million people deep in the Amazon Rainforest. It was once a notoriously extravagant rubber boom town in the 1800s. An opera house was built with European marble & crystal. One visiting opera troupe had half of its performers die from yellow fever in one season.
EgEld TIL that the Teletubbies from the BBC Children's series had a hit single - "Teletubbies say Eh-oh!" - which reached Number One on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in December 1997. It remained in the top 100 for a total of 41 weeks and sold well enough to be certified double platinum.
8aMN4 TIL: The element Thorium has a half-life of 14 billion years, which is the age of the universe.
15Q8 TIL that you can tickle penguins and they laugh.