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TIL Rick Astley has made a total of $12 from Rickrolling on YouTube

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9dQ7 TIL that film is still far superior to digital photography in megapixels. The most expensive consumer digital cameras in the world capture at best 50-60MP while film translates to anywhere between 50MP-800MP.
YJ6P TIL the body’s electric-field completely disappears before physical death.
wDoo TIL That the 1937 Soviet census committee was arrested for “sabotage” and records were destroyed after they showed a mere 162 million citizens, an increase of 1.5 mil since 1930, rather than the expected 185+ million. It is now used to estimate the # of Stalins victims.
KYwxE TIL that Iraq's GDP per capita in 1991 was 22.8 US dollars.
YDgr TIL a high school teacher made a tumblr about stupid things high schoolers write in essays