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TIL in 2000, ABBA were offered $1 billion to reunite for a 100-show world tour, working out to a $2.5m paycheck per member per show. The band turned it down.

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Jnbv TIL Mark Twain was a confederate solider.
eKVE TIL Buzz Aldrin’s (second person to walk the moon) mother’s maiden name is “Moon.”
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