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TIL - Artists don't get paid per stream by Spotify. Spotify pays rightsholders (typically record labels, record labels take ~80-85% of royalties, artists get left with 15-20%).

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kONE7 TIL In early days of penicillin, it was so expensive it was extracted from patients urine and reused on other patients.
P19gG TIL Andrew Lloyd Webber's reaction to the film adaptation of his musical "Cats" was to get an emotional support dog.
p8ePZ TIL that the flags planted on the moon (Apollo 11) were purchased by a NASA secretary who went to Sears and bought off-the-shelf nylon flags for $5.50 USD (1969). These flags are still “flying” and held aloft by their poles.
lo9k5 TIL actor Scott Glenn refused to reprise his Silence of The Lambs role of FBI agent Jack Crawford in the subsequent movies because the research he conducted for the original film disturbed him so much. It still apparently causes him anxiety to this day.
E1YJ7 TIL about the Tree of One Hundred Horses, a massive chestnut tree that holds the world record for girth, clocking in at 190 feet in circumference—nearly the length of a hockey rink.