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TIL that David Beckham donated his entire salary ($1 million a month USD) from his stint at PSG to a local children’s charity.

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8ewoa TIL the idea of machines gaining full consciousness and overthrowing humanity goes back all the way to 1863
5VoAR TIL that 3.6% of all current cancer cases worldwide are attributable to drinking alcohol
lLXV TIL Taylor Swift once accidentally released 8 seconds of white noise and topped the Canadian iTunes charts
loVM7 TIL Grant Imahara designed and built a robot for the Late Late show with Craig Fergusen:
j6Pkp TIL that James Joyce's book "Dubliners" took 9 years to be published, on the stipulation that he wouldn’t receive royalties on the first 500 copies. Though debuted to positive reviews, the book eventually sold exactly 499 copies—one short of Joyce being able to profit from it.